‘Ensure medicines at hospitals’

LAHORE

Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique directed districts to complete forecast of yearly procurement requirements to ensure the availability of all essential medicines at health facilities.

In an Executive District Officers (H) meeting at the Directorate General Health Services here on Saturday, Salman Rafique took note of reporting issues regarding E-vaccs and directed districts to ensure strict compliance and initiate disciplinary action in case of further negligence. The Chief Minister Roadmap team presented data analysis on Key Performance Indicators. He further said hospital cleanliness and unauthorised absence be given special focus.

Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Ali Jan Khan said the department may work on devolving more powers to divisions with a view to ensuring that accountability and performance improvement.

Director General Health Services Dr. Mukhtar Hussain Syed directed districts to complete and submit the lists of paramedics and allied staff for rationalization of promotions as per given procedures. He said the DG Office has prepared disease calendar to forecast and plan in advance and asked the districts to plan their preparations on monthly calendar. He also directed the districts to share data of general practisioner so that alerts are shared with them on regular basis.

Director EPI Dr. Munir Ahmed asked the eight districts Lahore, Multan, DG Khan, RY Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Rawalpindi, (Bahwalapur (Ahmed Pur East) to finalize preparations for the Sub National Immunization Day starting from the 15th of February. The districts showing big dropouts between BCG (first dose) and measles-1 were directed to improve the situation. He also said Pakistan is nearing MNTe elimination and assessment will be made by international experts in April. He said measles reporting needed serious improvement and districts with large number of High Risk Mobile Groups needed to further improve their registration.

The Dengue Control Program presented data analysis of different cities and said that areas repeatedly showing cases have to be specifically focused.