Provincial Minister for Labour, Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi, said that focus of the government is upon primary and protective healthcare so that it can accomplish the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in order to achieve the targets Rs 8.5 billion will be spent in the province. He said that government has reserved Rs 42.30 billion for the provision of healthcare facilities to the people in the province.
He said that huge funds are being allocated for the provision of state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to the labourers and their families as the labourers are the backbone of our industrial system.
While talking to various delegations Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi here on Sunday averred that government will provide state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to the labourers and new social security hospitals will be set up and existing hospitals would be updated. He said that Rs 2, 427,520,620 will be spent for the provision of medical treatment in the social security hospital, whereas, Rs 1, 134,605,000 will be spent for the treatment of labourers and their dependants at dispensaries. He said that the social security is introducing hospital management information system costing rupees 107 million, the scheme would be introduced at the dispensary level in phases.
Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi said that protective healthcare programmes would be continued to save the children from epidemic, communicable and non-communicable diseases. He said that Punjab government is appointing gynecologists in public sector of hospitals of the province and had focused on the health of infants and mothers and for this purpose free delivery services were being provided to the pregnant women at rural health centers. The programmes launched for the maternal and neonatal healthcare will ensure progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in maternal and infant health as the provincial government has reserved huge funds for health sector in the current fiscal year's budget, he concluded.