Advisor to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafiq has said that government has empowered the medical superintendents by giving them financial and administrative powers. Now, it is their responsibility to run the hospital efficiently. He said that revamping of 40 DHQ and THQ hospitals would be completed by June 2017. He said that any modern technology does not function itself but human are behind it. Therefore, administrative doctors have to improve their performance and discharge their duties with more zeal and zest.
He expressed these views while addressing one-day seminar of medical superintendents of DHQ and THQ hospitals at Directorate General Health Services, here Sunday. The purpose of the seminar was to sensitise the medical superintendents regarding the revamping plan of the hospitals and their responsibilities in this regard. Besides, Secretary Primary & Secondary Health Ali Jan Khan, DG Health Services Dr Mukhtar Hussain Syed, Additional Secretary Dr Adnan Zafar, Project Director Revamping Plan Muhammad Usman and other concerned officers of the department attended the meeting.
Kh. Salman Rafiq regretted that a number of medical superintendents even did not pay visit to the whole building of their hospitals and there are many corners of the hospitals are still out of their focus. He asked the medical superintendents to take a round of the hospital in the evening regularly to check the system. Secretary Primary & Secondary Health Ali Jan Khan informed that in every hospital, horticulture is also a main component of revamping plan.
Moreover, Minimum Service Delivery Standard (MSDS) have been prepared with the collaboration of Punjab Healthcare Commission for which PHC would provide training to the staff of the hospital which would be mandatory. He said that after enforcing the MSDS, PHC would issue certification to all the hospitals. Ali Jan Khan further said that janitorial services, security, laundry, mechanical, electrical and plumbing wings would be outsourced. Secretary Health further informed that physiotherapy unit, dental unit, CT Scan machine would be provided in every DHQ hospital and old equipment, if required would be replaced.
He said that all the system would be based on information technology through which hospitals would be made paperless and data of each patient would be saved through electrical medical record and the solution of long queues of patients would be sought out through queue management system for providing healthcare facilities without any delay to the patients.