As many as 86 head nurses, promoted recently on the direction of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, have been posted in the Lahore General Hospital. The Punjab Health Department has promoted a total of 1,211 nurses as head nurses in grade 17 who had been working as charge nurses after got recruited during 1986 to 1993 in the Punjab Health Department. With the addition of 86 more head nurses, now the number of total head nurses working at LGH has reached to 119.
Principal of Post-Graduate Medical Institute and Lahore General Hospital Professor Anjum Habib Vohra said for the first time such a big number of nurses have been promoted to grade 17 as head nurses in the history of Pakistan for which Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif rightly deserves congratulation. He has proved himself as the real benefactor of the health sector by giving basic right of promotion to the nurses who were working as charge nurses since long time, he said. He said that standard of health care system in the province would definitely improve as a result of this revolutionary decision of the Punjab Chief Minister.
Professor Anjum Habib Vohra said that newly posted head nurses would be equally given responsibilities in all the three shifts at the LGH in order to bring about a uniform enhancement in the performance in ward management of all departments.
He stressed upon the head nurses to serve with more dedication and devotion as their role is very vital in the health delivery system.
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