Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi has ordered to set up a steering committee headed by the special health secretary that would look into the administrative affairs of the Multan Institute of Cardiology (MIC) and the promotion of qualified medical officers as specialists would be made.
He said the step would remove the shortage of specialist doctors in the province. It is officially learnt here on Wednesday. He said the government was prioritising the provision of healthcare and educational facilities for the women of the province.
Elahi said a new cadre called Community Midwife had been started and a training programme of a year and a half had been started in this regard in 40 public health and general nursing schools in the province. He said 1,320 community midwives had been given admission in these institutions.
He added that a community midwife home would be available to every 5,000 people in the province by 2015. He said these trained women would help control the maternal mortality rate in the country. Elahi said that institutes of cardiology were being set up in Faisalabad and Wazirabad on the pattern of the one in Lahore.
He said these cardiology hospitals were being constructed and their completion would help provide better cardiac treatment to the people of the province. He said all facilities would be provided to the doctors of these hospitals. He said heart specialists would be hired from abroad.