The chief minister said that the provision of healthcare to the people was not a favour by the government, but their right.
This spending has included substantial raises for doctors and reforms to their service structure, as well as on the setting up of new colleges and hospitals, said the chief minister at a meeting with health officials in Model Town, according to a press statement. “Now it is the responsibility of doctors to serve the ailing humanity with commitment and dedication,” Sharif said.
He noted that poor patients at government hospitals received free medicines. Air-conditioners had been installed in general wards at a cost of Rs2 billion. A 410-bed hospital in Bahawalpur was almost finished, new hospitals were being built in Sargodha and Lodhran, and a kidney centre was being built in Multan, he said. Cardiac surgeries had been started at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, he said, “a state-of-the-art hospital that is even better than the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.”
The chief minister said that the provision of healthcare to the people was not a favour by the government, but their right. Senior doctors must spare no effort in their service, he said, and must ensure the provision of free medicines. They must maintain discipline and performance at hospitals, he said, adding that they would have to be more active to do so.
Senior doctors at the meeting presented various proposals to the chief minister to improve healthcare system.
The chief minister said that the Punjab government had also made untiring efforts to improve the education sector and law and order.
Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique, Parliamentary Health Secretary Dr Saeed Elahi, the health secretary, vice chancellors of medical universities, principals of teaching hospitals, medical superintendents and senior professors attended the meeting.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 18th, 2013.
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@faisal
so the situation is brilliant in sindh where 20 kids died cuz of no ventilator available to them in larkana or 300 plus deaths in the form of meseals or kids dying of dengue in sindh. You should be thankful that you have a CM in the form of Shahbaz Sharif who listens to everybody and redresses their issues otherwise look at quetta just today
@faisal: Will you call it a paid report when you see the hospitals with your own eyes? I have seen the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology and it is truly a gift to the people of Northern Punjab and neighboring areas in KPK and Azad Kashmir. The hospital in Bahawalpur once opened will be a great addition for the people of South Punjab. Rather than criticize, you need to ask yourself why Punjab is still progressing and developing despite getting no support from the Federal government in Islamabad. Obviously the CM has shown a personal commitment to improve Punjab and Punjabis can see it regardless of what you may say.