Minister of Health Punjab, Tahir Ali Javed has said that a centre of excellence in neuro surgery will be established at Lahore General Hospital (LGH) and necessary medical equipment would be provided in the hospital for which extra funds have been allocated to the hospital administration.
"A new MRI machine worth Rs 100 million will be provided to the hospital whereas ventilators, cardiac monitors and other medical equipment costing Rs 90 million for the upgradation of operation theatres of the hospital is also being provided."
The minister expressed these views while performing ground breaking of the new emergency block at the Lahore General Hospital here on Friday.
He said that the emergency wards of the public sector hospitals will be upgraded and state of the art medical facilities would be provided in the emergencies. To achieve the target, the government, he said has provided Rs 1 billion to the teaching hospitals for the provision of necessary health facilities in emergency medical services.
Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) Professor Dr Ali Ajwad Shah, Director Architecture and MS Dr Ejaz Ahmed Sheikh also addressed on the occasion besides others.
The minister said that governments in developing countries could not shoulder the provision of health care facilities to the people alone, therefore community participation was the necessity of the time so that resources could be generated for this noble cause.
Principal Ali Ajwad Shah said that all the medicines in emergency wards including life-saving costly medicines were being provided free of cost to the all patients. The Principal further said that all the pathological tests of patients in emergency were being performed without any cost whereas the facilities of X-Rays, ultrasound and CT scan tests were also provided without any charges.
The minister took round of the emergency wards of medical & surgery and enquired about the medical facilities from the patients being provided by the hospital management. Later, the minister laid foundation stone of the new emergency block which would be constructed amounting Rs 160 million, the funds have already been allocated to the hospital administration.