In a significant move aimed at public welfare, the Punjab government is going to allocate sufficient resources, in the Punjab budget 2009-10, for the health sector to ensure the provision of free medicines in all public sector hospitals in the province, from the next fiscal year.
Sources in the PML-N told Business Recorder, here on Saturday, that the Punjab Chief Minister, Mian Shahbaz Sharif, is paying attention to the provision of healthcare to the common man. Besides free dialysis, in all District and Tehsil headquarters hospitals, free medicines were also being provided in the emergency wards of hospitals across the province.
Apart from this, air-conditioners and generators have also been provided in all District and Tehsil headquarters hospitals. "The provincial budget 2009-10 would be reflective of the needs of the poor masses, because special attention would be paid to the welfare of the neglected segments of society, as well as to the provision of justice and basic amenities to the masses," a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Mohammad Pervaiz Malik said.
Talking to Business Recorder, Pervaiz Malik said that the government would make efforts for poverty alleviation and the uplift of the deprived segments of society. He said that the common man was groaning under the burden of direct and indirect taxes, therefore, the provincial government would focus on public welfare projects.
He said that 1.8 million poor families were benefiting from the Food Support Programme, whereas comprehensive planning had been evolved for imparting vocational education to the children of such families, so that they could achieve self-reliance.
The PML-N leader said that the Sasti Roti Scheme for destitute people would continue, while the number of enlisted Tandoors would be increased. Moreover, the Punjab Minister for Excise Taxation, Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman while talking to doctors and paramedics, asked the doctors to maintain the highest standard of honesty and integrity in the line of duty for ailing humanity.
He said that the provision of modern and standardised healthcare, and educational facilities, to the masses is at the top of the present government's agenda. In order to provide these facilities, the focus of the government is upon primary and protective health care, he said. He said that paramedics and nurses play a vital role in the provision of healthcare facilities to patients.
Currently, free of cost treatment facilities are being provided to patients in emergency wards of teaching hospitals throughout the province, while the government will provide free medicines in all public sector hospitals in the province from the next fiscal year, he added. Further, the Punjab Minister for Population Welfare, Neelam Jabbar Chaudhry said that the Population Welfare department was implementing a 3-tier strategy for creating an awareness of population planning in the province.
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