Hospitals, health institutions directed to stay alert during Eid

The Punjab Health department has directed public hospitals, autonomous medical institutions, rural health centres and basic health units in the province to stay alert during the Eid to help the public. The Health department, through a circular has told principals of autonomous medical institutions, medical superintendents of public hospitals, including the district and tehsil headquarters hospitals, the Punjab health director general and heads of other subordinate medical institutions for foolproof arrangements.
They are told to prepare an emergency duty roster and a crisis management plan to ensure doctors, nurses and paramedics are present and set up more beds and sufficient stock of drugs and vaccines. Pubic hospital administrations will be keeping bio-medical equipment, machines, patient's lifts and standby generators, ready operation theatres and equip ambulances with trained staff.
Special duties of additional and deputy medical superintendents, doctors, nurses and other staff of the Lahore General Hospital are fixed to ensure the smooth working and unabated provision of medical facilities to patients. Hospital OPD will remain closed between July 17 to July 21 and its staff will perform duties in emergency and other wards during these days. Post-Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Principal Professor Khalid Mahmood has said the off days of sanitary workers and security guards will be cancelled while the additional medical and the nursing superintendents are told to cancel their leaves. Professor Mahmood has urged the medical social officer to cater for poor patients and also told the staff to adopt precautionary measures against dengue.