Labourers children: 'government pursuing programme to provide education, healthcare'

Provincial Minister for Labour, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said that government is implementing a comprehensive programme for providing modern educational as well as state of the art healthcare facilities to labourers and workers' children.
He said that setting up of computer labs in thousands of schools, establishment of centres of excellence, provision of educational facilities in 10,000 schools, besides a number of steps, have been undertaken for this purpose. He said that all government schools will be given the status of English medium schools in 2011 while Punjab government is also launching a vigorous campaign for primary enrolment this year. He said that government is also awarding scholarships to thousands of talented students for studying in the country and abroad through the endowment fund of rupees six billion.
Talking to various delegations of labourers, the minister said government is giving top priority to provision of modern healthcare facilities to all segments of the society, especially labourers. He announced that four new medical colleges would be opened up in the province whereas two medical colleges, each in Lahore and Faisalabad, would be set up by the labour department. He said that in order to provide specialised treatment/diagnostic facilities near the workplace of labourers, labour department has established 'satellite clinics'.