Punjab government has decided to conduct a detailed survey for providing improved health facilities to the masses in rural and urban areas of the province shortly.
Official sources on Monday told Business Recorder that under the programme, teams of district-level health departments would conduct a survey for preparing a report for extending medical facilities to the people in their respective areas of the province. SCHOOL HEALTH: The government had also adopted measures for initiating "School Health" programme, which would be carried out in an organised manner and the programme would be incumbent upon every basic health centre to ensure the facility of medical check-up of students in their respective areas.
The health and education departments would supervise the programme and schoolteachers would be bound to maintain the health record of the students of their respective areas, sources added.
The government has also decided to establish burn units and improve emergency wards in all government controlled hospitals for providing timely treatment facilities to the patients. Besides, the existing basic health units, rural health centres, tehsil and district headquarter hospitals were being upgraded and equipped with modern medical gear and sufficient quantity of medicines and staff would be provided to facilitate the patients, sources added.