CM inaugurates emergency block at PIC

Says govt will bear expenses of tests of patients

LAHORE

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that latest emergency of the world comprising 100-bed has been inaugurated in PIC and soon 100 more beds will be added to it and there will be a total of 200 beds in the emergency.

He expressed these views while addressing inaugural ceremony of modern emergency set up with the cooperation of friends of PIC at Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Sunday. He congratulated those who provided resources for construction of emergency and put their share in this noble cause. He said business community of the country had set an excellent example by establishing emergency equipped with modern facilities through their hard-earned money. He said that in 1980s, then Governor of Punjab Lt-Gen (R) Ghulam Jillani Khan and Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took the responsibility of setting up of Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore. Due to their efforts, this hospital was set up, he said, adding then Chief Executive of the hospital Dr Shehryar and doctors made it a state-of-the-art institute. Unfortunately, this institution did not make progress due to politics in the institution, he added. 

He said modern angiography lab had been set up in the emergency and such labs should be constructed throughout Pakistan. He said the Punjab government had provided MRI, CT Scan and Angeo-lab at a cost of Rs800 million in PIC and now it was basic responsibility of the hospital management to benefit the patients.

He said PIC would become referral hospital only when we would activate and improve our hospitals. He said the project of provision of CT scan machine in every district of the province was an excellent step of the Punjab government and this programme would soon be completed. He said the Punjab government would bear the expenses of tests of the patients and they would not have to go outside for tests and this work will be completed within next month. He said the patients would not face difficulties when these machines would become operational and result in facilitating the patients.

He said the government had planned provision of CT scan machines in the hospital of every district of the province and would be operated by the companies that would provide these machines. He said the hospital staff would have no concern with these CT scan machines.Earlier, the chief minister inaugurated the newly-constructed emergency in PIC and inspected emergency wards and medical facilities being provided to the patients. He also inquired after the patients under treatment in the wards. At the end of the ceremony, the chief minister distributed shields among the philanthropists taking part in this noble cause.

cheque: Shahbaz Sharif visited the Yousaf Park, Shahdara, Sunday and met the families of the victims of gas cylinder blast which had claimed 11 lives. He distributed cheques worth Rs one million each among the victims' families and announced free education for their children.