Shahbaz vows to achieve goal of establishment of healthy society

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has vowed that no stone will be left unturned to achieve the goal of establishment of a healthy society. He was chairing a high-level meeting, which reviewed the pace of progress on different ongoing reforms programmes for providing better healthcare facilities to the people.
The meeting accorded approval for sending 14 new mobile units and 20 small mobile health units to different districts of the province along with provision of additional funds to the tune of billions of rupees for the development projects of health sector.
Addressing the meeting, Shehbaz said that six mobile health units are providing qualitative diagnostic and treatment facilities to the rural population at their doorsteps in different far-flung areas. Out of the procured 14 mobile health units, four units have reached here which will be sent to the districts of Khushab, Bhakkar, Sargodha and Layyah. In the IInd phase, more mobile health units will be sent to the less-developed districts, he added. He said that provision of mobile health units to the backward areas is a revolutionary step of the Punjab government. He added that the programme of providing CT scan machines to all the districts of the province is going on in full swing. These CT scan machines have been installed in the district headquarters hospitals of Kasur, Bhakkar, Vehari and Mianwali and will be made functional within a week. The installation of CT scan machines in all the DHQ hospitals of the province will provide round the clock facility of CT scan to the patients, he added. He said that the Punjab government has made different far-reaching steps to improve the health sector and added that a sum of Rs 60 billion is being spent on different development projects of health sector.
He said that state-of-the-art pathology labs will be set up in Lahore and Multan while the outsourcing process of radiology and pathology services is in progress, as well. Health Minister Kh Imran Nazir, Health secretaries, high officials of the Health department and concerned departments' secretaries attended the meeting.