Day care centres in hospitals promised

The government will set up daycare centres in all government hospitals in Punjab, Minister of Primary and Secondary Healthcare Khawaja Imran Nazir announced on Saturday Addressing a conference of principals of nursing and allied health professional institutes, he said the honour of creating a service structure for nurses also goes to the PML-N government.

He warned that whoever committed corruption would not escape strict accountability.

Provincial Minister Salman Rafique said Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz had called for improvement of the nursing sector. “We will visit all nursing colleges and assess the conditions,” he said.

He said the government would try to raise the quality of the nursing sector of Punjab to the international level. Reforms have to be brought for the improvement of the sector. He said the establishment of daycare centres in government hospitals was one of the top priorities.