The government has focussed priority on primary and protective healthcare to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs. This was stated by Labour Minister Punjab Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi. He said that midwifery homes would be established at the far-flung areas of the province to provide basic health facilities to child and mother and to look after their health as well as to minimise the maternal and neonatal mortality rate.
He said that huge funds are being allocated for the provision of state of the art healthcare facilities to the labourers and their families.
While talking to a delegation of doctors, paramedics and women regarding Mother's Day, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi said that the department was appointing trained lady health workers, LHVs and community midwives at health centres, especially in remote areas so that infants and mothers could be saved from fatal diseases, whereas, LHWs were being appointed in remote areas. He said that department was appointing gynaecologists at health centres in remote areas to provide better healthcare facilities to the mothers.
He said that the programmes launched for the maternal and neonatal healthcare will ensure progress towards achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs) in maternal and infant health.