ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination on Friday approved the Health Services Academy Bill -2017 and Islamabad Territory Health Care Regulatory Bill -2017.
The committee meeting which was chaired by Dr Hafeez-ur-Rehman received briefing from Director General Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Dr Asad Hafeez on Islamabad Territory Health Care Regulatory Bill -2017 and Health Services Academy Bill 2017.
He said that academy was showing its performance in short span of time. He said that Higher Education Commission (HEC) has given the degree awarding status to the academy in 2016. He said that it was high time to give it the status of university keeping in view the demand from countries of the region.
He said that the Islamabad Territory Health Care Regulatory Bill -2017 will regulate the health care facilities.
The meeting was informed that the bill to giving status of university will be presented in next session and that after giving university status, students from others countries will get admission in large number.
Administrator Human Organ Transplant Authority (HOTA) Brig (retd) Dr Aamir Akram briefed the committee on Human Organs Transplant (amended) Bill 2016.
Senator Kalsoom Parveen said that two major hospitals Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and Federal Government Poly Clinic (FGPC) were established in the federal capital to serve the local population however, after spending 20 years there was no plan to set up new hospital or expansion of these hospitals.
She said keeping in view the growing population of federal capital there was a need to have more hospitals in the federal capital.
She said that patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kashmir and other far-flung areas visit these major hospitals for treatment of various diseases. She said that additional facilities should be added with these two major hospitals to serve maximum number of patients.
She said that the expansion plan of FGPC was still pending while doctors of PIMS Cardiac center were also facing several hardships due to delay in releasing of their salaries.
Senator Ramesh Kumar said that 14 posts of department heads of National Institution of Health were lying vacant since long.
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