Ambulance service launched for Thatta, Sujawal

KARACHI:  Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the Sindh government has realized the dream of Shaheed Mohterma Benazir Bhutto by launching state-of-art Sindh People’s Ambulance service to improve health services in Thatta and Sujawal.

He said this while addressing at the launching ceremony of Sindh People’s Ambulance Service for Thattat and Sujawal here at the Banquet Hall of CM House on Friday.

The chairman PPP said that Shaheed Benazir Bhutto, the first women prime minister of Pakistan, and Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto always worked to provide best services in every sector to the marginalized segment of the society.

He added that the Sindh Government by launching the ambulance service in partnership with Aman Foundation has actually materialized the dream of our shaheed leadership.

The chairman said that the over 200 local people of Thatta and Sujawal have been trained to provide emergency health service in their respective areas. This is the beginning of a new era under which the poor people of Thatta and Sujawal would be able to transport their patients to any suitable health facility which the Sindh Government has established and improved in the surrounding areas.

Chairman Bilawal Bhutto said that the collective wisdom of PPP leadership and the Sindh government has translated into genuine service to the people of the province and this service [ambulance} would also be extended to the other districts of the province.

Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah said Asif Zardari was the architect of Public Private Partnership in Sindh. “When he had taken over as President of Pakistan he guided the Sindh government [him as finance minister} to launch mega projects through Public Private Partnership mode because the provincial government had meager resources to take them up,” he said and added that following the guide lines of Mr Zardari the Sindh government has launched mega projects under the PPP mode, some of them are Jhirk-Mulakatiar bridge on River Indus, Hyderabad-Mirpurkhas road and various others.

The ambulance service has been started with 25 ambulances equipped with basic life support. Out of 25 ambulances, 12 have been given to Thatta and 10 to Sujawal and three have been kept in back up. The operating expenditures of the service would be around Rs268.31 million.  

Those who spoke on the occasion include Secretary Health Drt Fazal pechuho who briefed on the operation of the service and Mr Malik Ahmed Jalal CEO of Amn Foundation. He briefed on the operation of hius service and assured that the service in Thatta and Sujawal would be most efficient and effective.

Earlier, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari launched the service by cutting the tap and then he was briefed about the equipment and facilities installed in the ambulances.