The nine-member Turkish health experts' delegation has completed the assessment to replicate Turkish model of family medicine and early disease warning system in Kasur district as a pilot project. The family medicine information system and a pathological laboratory service will be established before launching of the new pilot project in collaboration with the Turkish public health experts.
The Punjab government has appointed 10 dedicated field coordinators to accomplish this task while the Turkish government will nominate five permanent consultants to run this collaborative programme all over the province. The delegation led by Dr Hassan Shah revealed this at a meeting with the Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shmail Ahmad Khawaja on Saturday. Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique, Minister for Primary & Secondary Healthcare Khawaja Imran Nazir, Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Najam Ahmad Shah and Secretary Primary & Secondary Healthcare Ali Jan Khan were also present on the occasion.
The Additional Chief Secretary told the delegation that Punjab Chief Minister has decided to seek collaboration in another pilot project to induct 100 motorcycle-health personnel equipped with the first-aid box. These motorcycle riders will work under the Rescue 1122 emergency services where four-wheeler ambulances cannot operate due to narrow passages and traffic jam particularly in the metropolis of Lahore to start with, he added.
Owing to increasing influx of patients to the tertiary hospitals from far-flung rural areas of the province, the Punjab CM has decided to launch Rescue 1122 emergency ambulance service to save the lives of seriously endangered patients.
The Rescue-1122 emergency service will be integrated into tertiary hospitals in this regard with the technical collaboration of public health experts of the Republic of Turkey. A 15-point memorandum of understanding (MoU) has already been inked on November 17 this year in the presence of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to collaborate with the Punjab government in transforming the health sector.
Shamail Khawaja said the provincial government wants to outsource non-core clinical services, medical research, diagnostic facilities, incineration, laundry services, parking and security arrangements of two tertiary hospitals, one in Lahore and one in Faisalabad, along with two secondary healthcare hospitals of Sheikhupura and Muzaffargarh districts.
The Punjab government will also seek technical collaboration in short term training of hospital managers and nurses apart from establishing family health services model and emergency services control and command system in the public sector hospitals all over the Punjab.
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