Punjab Minister for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education (SH&ME), Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that completion of health sector's development projects is being carried out on fast track due to which significant improvement has been witnessed in health facilities. He further said that completion of different mega projects in Multan at a cost of Rs 5.5 billion and the inauguration by the Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has further added lot of modern facilities in the system.
Salman Rafique said, here on Thursday that apart from spending billions of rupees on the revamping of DHQ/THQ hospitals and provision of CT scan machines at district level, as well as setting up of ICU's in the DHQ hospitals, a number of mega projects have also been completed in Multan.
He said that 150 beds have been added in the Children Hospital Multan at a cost of Rs 1929, similarly 150-bedded Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases (MIKD) has been completed at a cost of Rs 1444 million moreover burn unit of international standard has been functionalized at a cost of Rs 878 million. Rs 411 million has been spent on Shahbaz Sharif DHQ hospital and 323 million rupees have been spent on the construction of Regional Blood Centre (RBC).
Salman Rafique was of the view that construction of mega projects in Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalnager and other cities is also continued and the CM is personally monitoring the health sector's development projects and taking keen interest in the completion of these projects. He further said that the concerned officers and the contractor was reprimanded on the slow pace of work on Rawalpindi Institute of Urology & Kidney Diseases (RIKD) and clear directions have been issued for accelerating the construction work on the project.
The minister said that surgical tower of Mayo Hospital has also been completed and few days back operations/procedures have been started. He said that the top most priority of the government is to insure that best medical treatment facilities in maximum quantity to be made available for the people for which hectic efforts and solid steps are being taken by the Health department.
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