Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) Chairman Umar Saif said that up to 21 projects have started to improve the healthcare by using android and Internet applications. The chairman, who was briefing at a meeting on Saturday, said the projects were included dengue tracking, disease surveillance and medicine inventory management, polio vaccination and biometric attendance systems and a health and hospital watch. Chief Minister Advisor on Health Khwaja Salman Rafiq and Health Secretary Jawad Rafiq were also present.
"The technology has brought a real-time change in the decades-old governance and the public service delivery in our basic health units, rural health centres, tehsil and district headquarters hospitals.
Now, it is impossible for administrative officers to send fake inspection reports because of evidence-based smart devices being provided to them by the board. They are to visit the hospitals physically and send online reports with pictures of their visits to the central dashboard where every activity is being recorded instantly."
He also said the data collected this way was reviewed by the high-ups and key decisions were taken. "This is a small example how modern technology is revolutionising our governance and public service delivery system by ensuring transparency and accountability," he told the meeting.
About the board's performance, he said, "They are so innovative and effective that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had desired to monitor each and every activity of the Health Department digitally. The health secretary said IT-based projects were unprecedented helping to remove flaws found in the Health Department and that its models would rightly be presented in the upcoming International Monitoring Board meeting to be held in Abu Dhabi.
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