LAHORE: Chief Minister Usman Buzdar says the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government is determined to provide quality healthcare facilities to mothers and children and has started work on projects of state-of-the-art mother and child hospitals across the province, including remote districts of Punjab.
He said a 600-bed mother and child hospital in Ganga Ram Hospital and a 200-bed mother and child hospital in Multan were being set up. He said such hospitals in Mianwali, Rajanpur, Layyah, Attock, Bahawalnagar, D.G. Khan and Sialkot would also be established.
Mr Buzdar said the former government had not constructed a single mother and child hospital during the last 10 years. He said the former rulers, who were fond of self-projection, could not build a single hospital in the province where they could get quality and modern medical treatment for themselves.
Buzdar says mother, child hospitals, trauma centres being set up across Punjab
He said the [present] government had adopted a uniform policy to provide quality healthcare facilities under which Nishtar-II hospital was being setting up in Multan, Sheikh Zayed Hospital-II in Rahim Yar Khan and a cardiology institute in DG Khan. He said Nishtar-II Hospital was being set up in Multan after 70 years. Moreover, he said, emergency wards of public hospitals were being upgraded in Rahim Yar Khan, Sargodha and Bahawalpur. He said thalassemia unit and bone marrow transplant centre of Bahawal Victoria Hospital was also being upgraded. Similarly, he said, new state-of-the-art DHQ hospitals were being established in Chiniot, Hafizabad and Chakwal besides setting up cardiology units in Bahawalnagar and DHQ Bhakhar.
He said the cardiac unit was being upgraded at Sahiwal teaching hospital. He said an institute of urology was near completion in Rawalpindi. The Wah THQ was being awarded status of DHQ and Texila THQ was also being upgraded.
He said the Haseeb Shaheed General Hospital would be completed next year in Faisalabad.
The chief minister said there was a plan to set up 40 new trauma centres across the province besides making 26 existing trauma centres functional.
He said the incumbent government recruited 32,000 doctors and paramedical staff in two and a half years whereas former rulers recruited only 18,000 in their first three years.
PML-Q: Prominent political personalities of PP-164 led by PML-N ticket holder Chaudhry Zain Shaukat Dagran called on Speaker Punjab Assembly Parvez Elahi and provincial general secretary Senator Kamil Ali Agha here on Sunday and announced joining the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid.
Former PML-N leader Chaudhry Zain Shaukat Dagran said he had quit the PML-N after 30 years on developing hatred against its ‘anti-people’ policies.
Published in Dawn, July 26th, 2021