Better treatment right of every poor man: Maryam
Maryam said no stone was left unturned in the destruction of health sector during the previous regime
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz along with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif visited the Mayo Hospital here on Tuesday. During the visit, she said no child in Punjab will be more than 30 minutes away from a quality emergency. Better treatment is the right of every poor man.
Maryam and Nawaz especially visited the Children Emergency Block. They inspected different sections of the emergency, including step down care unit, nursing room neonatal block and pharmacy and interacted with parents of sick children in the triage area.
Maryam said no stone was left unturned in the destruction of health sector during the previous regime. Had there been no privatization in the past, we would have been ahead of India in every field today. She called a meeting of the authorities concerned immediately after visiting the hospital’s Children’s Emergency Ward. She co-chaired the meeting along with Nawaz for the improvement of child emergencies across Punjab.
Child Life Foundation CEO Ahsan Rabbani briefed the participants of the meeting that telemedicine program had become functional in the emergency wards of 153 hospitals across Punjab. He said that telemedicine control rooms had been established in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. State-of-the-art child emergency blocks would be established in 18 hospitals across Punjab.
A proposal to open the OPDs till 10pm in Punjab hospitals was reviewed in the meeting. The chief minister directed the authorities concerned to ensure availability of dog bite vaccine in hospitals.
The chief minister, while chairing a special meeting on the Aab-e-Pak Authority, directed to entrust the management of all filtration plants to a single authority. She directed the authorities concerned to install new filtration plants on a priority basis in areas with salty water. She sought a comprehensive plan to provide clean drinking water in every area. Earlier, a report on the status of 5,027 water filtration plants across Punjab was presented.
Meanwhile, Maryam Nawaz gave the Pakistan hockey team a cheque of Rs30 million at the CM Office for winning the silver medal in the Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament.
“I congratulate the hockey team on behalf of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Quaid Nawaz Sharif and myself. It is a very proud moment for us that you have raised the national honour in the field of hockey.”
