Health dept to extend help to PHC: minister

LAHORE

Provincial Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Kh Salman Rafique has said that Punjab Health Department will lend a helping hand to Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) in taking measures regarding implementation of the minimum service delivery standards and infection control in the hospitals and health centres of the province.

Implementation on recommendations of the commission will be ensured, he said while chairing a meeting of Rewind Coordination Committee constituted by the chief minister at Civil Secretariat on Wednesday, according to a handout issued here.

PHC Chief Operating Officer Dr Ajmal Khan told the meeting that PHC had registered more than 33,000 Hakeems, Tabeebs and Homeopaths while more than 18,000 licences had been issued. He said that 47,000 Hakeems and Tabeebs were practicing in the province and PHC issued licences to those fulfilling the requirements. He said the commission had received 1,000 complaints regarding various hospitals, individual doctors and clinics out of which 544 had been disposed of and decisions were taken against 205 applications while action was also taken against a number of doctors in different cases. He said that PHC had provided training to more than 9,000 doctors and other people associated with health sector.Kh Salman Rafique appreciated the performance of PHC. He said the government would help PHC and steps would be taken for improving the standard of health facilities in public and private hospitals, enforcing the minimum service delivery standards and infection control.