Labour Minister Punjab Haji Ehsaanuddin Qureshi has said that government is appointing gynaecologists at health centres in remote areas to provide better healthcare facilities to the mothers, therefore, the lady health workers (LHWs) and the community midwives are being appointed at all centres.
While addressing a delegation of doctors, paramedics and women regarding Mother's Day, Haji Ehsaan said that the government was appointing trained LHWs and community midwives at health centres, especially in remote areas so that infants and mothers could be saved from fatal diseases, whereas, LHWs were being appointed in remote areas.
He said that focus of the government is upon primary and protective healthcare so that to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to achieve the targets the community midwifery homes are being established at the far flung areas of the province to provide basic health facilities to child and mother and to look after their health as well as to minimise the maternal and neonatal mortality rate during the child birth. He said that huge funds are being allocated for the provision of, state of the art, healthcare facilities to the labourers and their families.
The minister said that the programmes launched for the maternal and neonatal healthcare will ensure progress towards achieving the MDGs in maternal and infant health, whereas, the specific objectives of these programmes are to reduce the under five mortality rate to less than 65 per thousand live births target 2015. The Punjab government was appointing gynaecologists in public sector of hospitals of the province and had focused on the health of infants and mothers and for this purpose free delivery services were being provided to the pregnant women at rural health centres, he concluded.
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