With a view to enhancing the existing medical and treatments facilities for dengue patients in government hospitals, ad hoc appointments of medical officers and allied staff through walk-in interviews have been started in the teaching hospitals here.
Chief Minister Punjab, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has already accorded permission to the teaching hospitals of Lahore for recruitment of necessary staff on ad hoc basis according to their needs/requirements to facilitate maximum dengue patients and provision of free medical and treatment facilities to these patients.
A senior doctor of Mayo-Hospital, Lahore hoped that with the induction of doctors and other staff, the situation would improve and public complaints would be redressed. According to him, the situation vis-à-vis dengue outbreak has started improving with awareness among the public. Only those dengue patients are given priority in treatment who are in "dangerous zone", while rest of the patients are advised to follow the guidelines and take rest in their homes. He hoped that it would further improve in the coming days as decline in dengue patients has been observed.
It may be noted that all the government hospitals had to face extra rush of dengue patients in the wake of dengue epidemic in Lahore. In Mayo-Hospital, Lahore around 3,000 people are daily visiting the hospital for dengue test and treatment. Separate wards have been allocated for treatment of dengue patients.
Meanwhile, a 'Consultative Workshop' in collaboration with the Health Department Punjab and University of Health Sciences Lahore will be held in the auditorium of UHS on Tuesday (today). The participants would be sensitised with the guidelines and protocol prepared by the Sri Lankan and local health experts for the treatment and case management of dengue patients.
Besides Sri Lankan medical experts, Principal Services Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Professor Faisal Masood and other senior medical teachers will deliver lectures to educate the doctors of public sector hospitals as well as general practitioners regarding the virus.
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