Punjab Minister for Public Health Engineering Sardar Hassan Akhtar Mokal has said it is the duty of the government functionaries to extend the benefits of the reforms and policies of General Pervez Musharraf to the common man so that Pakistan could emerge as a developed country.
He told reporters here on Wednesday that the Muslim League government under the leadership of President Musharraf was serving the nation and that the government had completed development projects in the past five years. He said the government had focused on the health and education sector reforms through which access of common man to the education and health facilities had been made possible. "The chief minister's health and education reforms have brought a visible change in the society while increased enrolment of students at school level has also been recorded. Similarly BHUs have become fully functional and all the medical and diagnostic facilities at teaching hospitals are available to every one, free of cost," he said.
He further said the government had focused on the primary health care and control of diseases programme by adopting preventive measures, adding that 50,000 lady heath workers and 16,000 supervisors had been posted in rural areas to provide basic medical facilities and counsel the local people. He said 25,000 trained community midwives were being posted in villages.