Provincial government has initiated a well-knitted plan for setting up modern social security hospitals in major industrial towns of the Punjab. Official sources told Business Recorder here on Saturday that these hospitals were being constructed at Sialkot, Gujrat, Muzaffargarh and Manga, adding that each hospital would consist of 100 beds.
The construction work on social security hospital Sialkot has been accelerated as government has already removed all bottlenecks, which were hindering the completion of the project. It is expected that Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) of Sialkot Social Security Hospital would be operational by end of current month, sources said.
The treatment facilities like cardiology, gynaecology and haemo dialysis treatment facilities would be available for the industrial workers in this ultra modern100 bed hospital. The hospital would be completed at a cost of Rs 120 millions, while Rs 15 million would be utilised on equipping the hospital with latest machinery.
The construction of social security hospital Gujrat is near completion and it would be accomplished at cost of Rs 10 million while Social Security department will provide Rs 5 million for equipping the hospital with latest medical instruments.
Physiotherapy Units were being established in all social security hospitals for mitigating the problems of the industrial workers as well as to provide treatment facilities at their doorstep in the Punjab, they added.
Apart from this, Rs 23 million had been allocated during current fiscal for the purchase of quality medicines for the social security hospitals functioning in the Punjab. The government was making strenuous efforts extending maximum treatment facilities to the industrial workers and their dependants in social security hospitals of the province, sources said.
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