This will cost an annual Rs490 million and will cover the service structure and time scale, an increase in the uniform and mess allowance and stipend for nursing students.
The cost of a yet-undecided package for paramedical staff will reach Rs750 million a year. A meeting is scheduled to discuss it.
In addition to making these announcements, the CM told the health department to set up an emergency centre on the Super and National highways after every 100km. He wants work speeded up on the trauma centre scheme for Karachi at a cost of Rs24 million. Out of 14 floors, work on 12 floors has been completed so far.
The CM wants taluka headquarter hospitals to be upgraded by the end of December. Around 18 district hospitals are being renovated and work will be completed in Badin, Khairpur, Shikarpur and Mithi by the end of the current financial year. The project is being implemented at a cost of Rs2,427 million.
The CM was told that a crash programme to vaccinate students against hepatitis has been completed at an estimated cost of Rs265 million and 4.2 million students have been vaccinated.
Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed and Sindh Health Secretary Hashim Raza Zaidi said that the total annual development budget of the health department is Rs6,920 million out of which Rs5,804 million has been allocated for ongoing schemes and Rs1,470 million for new schemes.
There are 122 health schemes in Sindh, out of which 64 are ongoing and 58 are new. The health department has been given Rs4,087 million out of which Rs2,615 million has been spent.
Seven Thalassemia schemes are being completed at a cost of Rs168 million. Burns centres are being set up at Liaquat University for Health and Medical Sciences, Jamshoro, Chandka Medical University Larkana, Sukkur and other places. They will be completed by June 2012.
The meeting was attended by Sindh Finance Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas, Additional Chief Secretary (P&D) Israr Malik, Finance Secretary Naveed Kamran Baloch, CM’s Secretary Agha Jan Akhtar among others.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 6th, 2012.
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