Health managers: 'holding of workshops essential for capacity-building'

Secretary Health Punjab Jawad Rafique Malik has said that holding of training workshops are essential for capacity-building of health managers, uplift of health sector and providing best treatment facilities to the people for which computer technology and electronic gadgets will be utilised for organising Provincial Health Centre and district health centres on modern lines apart from changes in training modules.
He said this while addressing the concluding ceremony of capacity building training workshop of programme managers of district health development centres of the province at Provincial Health Development Centre here on Friday. Director PHDC Dr Sohail Saqlain, Director DHDC Lahore Dr Shahid Ikram and programme managers of various districts attended the training workshop.
Secretary Health said that billions of rupees have been allocated in ADP for the development of health sector. However, training of health managers and administrative doctors are vital for proper utilisation of these resources and running the administrative matters of hospitals smoothly.
He said that health development centres at district and provincial level have been established in the province for the long time but this facility was not benefited properly and these training centers have been ignored. Jawad Rafique Malik assured that computer technology and electronic gadgets will be used for harmonising PHDC and all DHDCs according to the demands of present era for which besides improving infrastructure of these centres, missing facilities and staff will also be provided.
He directed Dr Sohail Saqlain to immediately prepare PC-I and Concept Note for this purpose so that the work should be started on the project without any delay. Earlier, Dr Sohail Saqlain threw light on the achievements of the institution with regard to various training workshops continuing from May in Provincial Health Development Centre. Later, Secretary Health distributed certificates and shields among the participants of training workshop and the employees showing outstanding performance.