Clinics to be attached to hospitals

LAHORE

With a view to reducing the rush of patients and workload on the teaching hospitals and provide better healthcare facilities to the people for common and minor diseases at local level, the dispensaries and small hospitals run by City District Government are being attached with the teaching hospitals under referral system. 

In first phase, Wahdat Colony dispensary and Samanabad Hospital is being attached with Jinnah Hospital immediately. These filter clinics would refer serious patients to the attached teaching hospital.

It was decided in a meeting, chaired by Secretary Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education, Najam Ahmed Shah at Civil Secretariat, according to a handout issued here on Tuesday. Additional Secretary Health Development Azhar Abbas Malik, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College/Jinnah Hospital Prof Mahmood Shaukat, EDO Health Lahore Dr Zulfiqar Ali, District Officer Health Dr Muhammad Saeed, officers of Primary & Secondary Health Department attended the meeting.

Secretary Specialised Healthcare Najam Ahmed Shah has said that referral system is being evolved in the province for improving the healthcare system. He said that this initiative would provide better health facilities to patients and reduce bed occupancy rate in the hospitals. He said the other teaching hospitals of Lahore would also be attached with the CDGL dispensaries and small hospitals so that treatment facilities of common diseases could be provided to the people in their local area.

Najam Ahmed Shah directed that a complete road map should immediately be prepared as to which dispensary/filter clinic could be attached with which teaching hospital.

He directed that every teaching hospital should also design its logo which should be displayed on the dispensaries/clinics attached to that particular teaching hospital.