LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Monday inaugurated the Social Security Mobile Health Programme aiming to provide healthcare facilities to registered industrial workers and their families at their workplaces and homes through 65 mobile healthcare units.
Under the programme, more than 4.6 million industrial workers and their families in Lahore, Kasur and Sheikhupura will benefit from healthcare services.
The programme is aimed at ensuring timely diagnosis and treatment of workers, expanding access to medical facilities and reducing the burden on public hospitals.
The chief minister termed the initiative a significant step towards providing quality healthcare to registered workers and their families.
She said mobile health units will reach factories, commercial establishments and industrial units where workers are employed, while their families will also receive medical facilities at their doorstep.
Ms Nawaz said the Punjab Employees Social Security Institution (PESSI) is providing treatment and medicines to more than 10 million industrial workers and their family members through 24 social security hospitals.
She added that medical facilities would also be extended through 250 medical outlets under the institution.
According to a briefing, the mobile healthcare fleet comprises 10 mobile hospitals, five mobile clinics, specialised mobile dental and cardiac units, 40 motorcycles and 10 scooters.
It says these units will provide medical consultations, outpatient services, diagnostic facilities, medicines, first aid, telemedicine and health awareness services.
The mobile hospitals will also have female doctors, radiologists, nurses, laboratory and X-ray technicians, outpatient departments, radiology facilities and pathology labs.
The mobile dental services will include dental surgeons, technicians, dental X-ray facility, intraoral camera systems and telemedicine.
The mobile motorcycles and scooters will carry medical kits, first-aid supplies and essential medicines to provide basic healthcare services to workers and their families.
The programme also includes a Mobile Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) screening unit to facilitate early detection of heart diseases.
The unit will visit 29,845 factories,industrial establishments and other institutions in Lahore,Sheikhupura and Kasur, according to the briefing.
The mobile healthcare units will also be used to screen 54,000 children studying in workers welfare schools across Punjab for heart diseases.
The cardiac mobile hospital will provide preliminary diagnosis and medical consultations to industrial workers and their family members,while mobile dental hospitals will offer dental treatment to them.
All mobile units will be connected to a digital hub established at the PESSI head office to ensure real-time monitoring of their movement, field operations and service delivery through a central dashboard.
The government aims to extend the programme to Gujranwala, Sialkot, Gujrat, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Sahiwal, Multan, Muzaffargarh, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan and Rawalpindi as well by March 2027.
The chief minister also inspected a mobile hospital and dental hospital and received a briefing on medicines, medical equipment and diagnostic devices available in these units. She interacted with doctors and paramedical staff and appreciated their efforts.
She also visited the outpatient department of Nawaz Sharif Social Security Hospital and the Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Cardiac Centre, where she spoke to patients and inquired after them.Minister for Labour Manshaullah Butt and Secretary Danish Afzal briefed the chief minister on the programme.
Published in Dawn, October 13th, 2026
