Child emergency facilities in district hospitals soon: minister

LAHORE:Provincial Minister for Primary and Secondary Healthcare Khawaja Imran Nazir, while addressing a meeting on Punjab Health Initiatives, said that the public health projects initiated by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz are rapidly moving towards completion.

Child emergency facilities will soon be started in district hospitals, which will reduce child mortality by 50 percent.The provincial health minister said that the work of revamping 2,500 basic health centres and more than 300 rural health centres was under way, adding that modern furniture, other bio, non-bio medical equipment were being purchased.

The meeting also reviewed the performance of under-performing district Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Health, Medical Superintendents and hospital data.The provincial health minister said that under the ‘Clinic on Wheels’ project, five million people have benefited from medical facilities in all districts of the Punjab province so far. Similarly, more than 800,000 people have benefited from free-of-cost medicines, medical tests and other treatment under the field hospital project so far, the minister informed.