SIALKOT, June 2: Health Minister Chaudhry Muhammad Iqbal has claimed that the Punjab government has made more than 80 per cent BHUs and RHCs fully functional. He was talking to newsmen after inaugurating a free medical camp at Kamaanwala village in Model Town here on Saturday.

He said the provincial government has been spending billions of rupees annually to provide modern equipment at the BHUs and RHUs.

He said the federal, provincial and district governments have launched a project to collect data to know how many people were ill in a house in Punjab. This data would help ensure provision of free of cost health facilities to the people of both urban and rural areas.

He said the government would soon appoint specialists in the emergency wards of the DHQ and THQ hospitals in Punjab under the health sector mega development programme.

He said the provincial government would soon launch a ‘Target Subsidy Programme’ for the deserving people who have not been getting medicines from any state-run health institution in Punjab.

He announced that the Punjab Health Foundation would soon be reactivated. Special seminars and workshops would be arranged under the foundation to educate people about their health.

Punjab Industries Minister Ajmal Cheema, district nazim Akmal Cheema, MPAs Mumtaz Ali, Sajeela Ansar Bajwa, DCO Capt Ata Muhammad Khan (retired) and high-ranking officials of health department were also present on the occasion.