The Chief Minister Punjab Mohammed Shahbaz Sharif said that the Punjab govt would continue medical assistance to the IDPs. This he said during a briefing given to him by Health Department regarding the performance of medical teams sent to NWFP by the Health Department here on Friday.
He was informed that Medical Teams of Health Department Punjab were busy day and night to provide medical assistance to the IDPs in NWFP and during the last 29 days 85202 patients have been treated. The Chief Minister was informed that besides visiting the relief camps of IDPs, medical teams were also visiting Rural Health Centres and Tehsil Hospitals of Mardan and Charsadda to provide health facilities at the doorstep.
The patients who had been treated included 37720 female, 24413 male and 23069 children of below 12 years of age. These medical teams referred 1305 serious patients for further treatment to the temporary hospital established by Punjab Health Department in Mardan Medical Complex, where 245 patients were operated on. Moreover, 206 births took place.