Punjab Chief Minister, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a project of up-gradation of emergency medical services at a cost of Rs 1 billion had been evolved in big hospitals of the province.
While addressing the Punjab Health Development Forum here on Wednesday, Pervaiz said that the provincial government was making all out efforts to ensure provision of medical equipment and better health care in BHUs, THQ and DHQ hospitals.
Provincial Minister Health, Dr Tahir Ali Javed, Secretary Health, Country Director Unicef, and head of International Development Agencies in Pakistan were also present on the occasion.
The chief minister disclosed that Institute of Cardiology in Multan was being established at a cost of Rs 1 billion.
He said that Polio disease had been eliminated in the province in collaboration with international donor agencies.
He further said that the government was undertaking effective measures to ensure doctors attendance, provision of medicines and other necessary facilities at 4000 basic health units of the Province.
He maintained that remuneration of post-graduate trainee doctors had been increased from Rs 6,200 to Rs 10,000.
The Punjab Government had made arrangements for disposing off the hospital wastes through installation of incinerators. He said that women health project had been initiated in collaboration with Asian Development Bank (ADB) that would focus on better health care to the womenfolk.
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