National Accountability Bureau, Sindh, has chalked out an elaborate programme to ensure provision of basic health facilities to people and root out corruption from health department. Under the programme, the NAB, Ministry of Health and Provincial Health department would jointly work on a strategy.
The important fields in which they will take the initiatives include TB Control programme in Sindh, health care, Drug registration in Rawalpindi, pricing and control, Hospital management/health worker/specialist inter-face in the Punjab, National Maternal and Child Health program in Peshawar and Procurement of Medicine and Equipment in Balochistan.
In this regard an important meeting was held in the office of NAB Sindh here Friday to ensure improved implementation and enforcement and to chalk out a joint line of action for monitoring and to finalise conceived plans for TB Control and primary health care programs, elimination of corruption, purchase of medicines and their timely availability to poor.
The meeting, held under the chairmanship of Director A&P NAB Sindh Brigadier Arif Masood Khan, was attended by Secretary Health Mumtaz-ur-Rehman, Special Secretary Dr Abdul Majid, EDO Health Dr Sanjani, Director Sindh TB Control program, Iqtidar Chaudhry and other senior officers.
The meeting finalised the planning for chalking out a 3-stage joint strategy for effective TB Control programme while a detailed exchange of views took place regarding purchase of medicines, diagnostic centres, treatment centres, Basic Health Centres, Rural Health Centres, available resources and problems, budget and elimination of corruption.
Strategy was chalked out to check spurious drugs, its manufacturing and supply in the market, particularly in government hospitals and the program was reviewed to create public awareness about TB. Issues like absenting doctors and paramedical staff, ghost employees and ghost health units, wrongful use of resources, fake patients, health related publicity and foreign aided programmes also came under consideration.
The health department officials informed that 257 diagnostic centres 934-treatment centres with 590 beds are functioning in Sindh. It was pointed out that 40,405 TB patients were diagnosed in Sindh till the end of 2006 and treatment provided to them.
The meeting was told that Sindh is the first Province, which achieved 70 percent target on the directive of World Health Organisation. It was stated that Rs 318.234 million budget has been proposed for the next three years for TB Control Program in Sindh. It includes the Sindh government share of Rs 199.767 million.
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