Maryam opens Field Hospitals Project, visits Bahawalpur

BAHAWALPUR/ LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday visited Abbas Nagar Chak No BC-6, Bahawalpur, after inaugurating a field hospital in Lahore. She also inaugurated a field hospital in Bahawalpur. She inspected the Mobile Health Unit and reviewed the facilities available there.

She went to the residence of a villager on his invitation. The CM said that she felt pleased after meeting the kind-hearted rural people. “It is my firm resolve to ensure progress and uplift of every village of Punjab. I desire a school and hospital in every village along with nice roads as well as a clean environment.’’

Maryam also inaugurated a 26-km road project stretching from Ahmadpur to Jhangrasharqi.

While addressing the inaugural ceremony of Field Hospitals Project in Punjab, the chief minister said that health facilities have been brought to the doorsteps of people in a short span of 6 weeks. “Field hospitals are for those areas where there is no big hospital or good clinic. It is a complete hospital equipped with all the basic facilities available in any good clinic. Some 32 field hospitals will spread in different areas of Punjab. Field hospitals will go to the rural areas and provide the best medical facilities to people there.”

The chief minister said: “The field hospital is a state-of-the-art healthcare facility. It has an AC, a diagnostic unit, a lab, ultrasound, ECG, X-ray and pharmacy facilities. The facilities like OPD, immunization, first aid, lady health workers and school nutrition will also be available in a field hospital.”

She said: “Containers were used for something else before today. By climbing the container, people have been exhorting the public to burn, strangle, beat and kill. The container abusers stopped free medicines of cancer patients and took to the streets. But if a government comes to serve its people, they become container hospitals. Medicines for cancer patients have been restarted, the fund for the medicines has also been increased from Rs2 billion to Rs6 billion. The revamping of 2,500 Basic Health Units and 300 Rural Health Centres of Punjab is in full swing.”

In her message on the International Labour Day, Maryam said: “I pay tribute to all labourers across the globe on the International Labour Day. Labourers are the friends of Allah Almighty and I salute all of them. Labourers are the shining stars of every industry and every labourer, every worker is a real hero. The government is determined for elevating the quality of life of labourers along with ensuring their prosperity.”

Meanwhile, Maryam Nawaz condemned a terrorist attack on the Jhangi Checkpost in Taunsa and commended the police for boldly foiling the attack. She paid rich tributes to police for repulsing the terrorist onslaught along with giving them a befitting reply. She directed best treatment facilities to injured cops. She expressed her firm resolve to eliminate the menace of terrorism once and for all.