Separate Emergency Department would be established in the teaching hospitals of Punjab on the pattern of Turkish Emergency Model. For this purpose, the posts of Professor of Emergency, Associate Professor Emergency and other vacancies would be created with separate service career. Attractive pay package would also be introduced for these posts for effective and smooth running of emergencies in the teaching hospitals. Turkish experts would provide technical and consultancy services for this project. It is proposed to start Pilot project from Mayo hospital.
It was decided in a meeting chaired by the Secretary Specialised Healthcare & Medical Education Najam Ahmad Shah in Civil Secretariat, here Sunday. Turkish experts of medical emergency services Dr Mehmat Akif, Dr Mehmat Ergin, Dr Yousaf Ali Altunsi, Dr Ayhan, Dr Ahmet Altiner and Dr Felah Attin, Vice Chancellor Fatima Jinnah Medical University Professor Dr Sardar Fakhar Imam, Pro Vice Chancellors University of Health Sciences and KEMU Professor Junaid Sarfraz Khan, Professor Qazi Saeed, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College Professor Rashid Zia, Principal PGMI Professor Ghayas un Nabi Tayyab, Special Secretary Health Dr Sajid Chauhan, Chief Executive Mayo Hospital Dr Asad Aslam Khan, MS Mayo Hospital Dr Tahir Khalil, MS Jinnah Hospital Dr Sohail Saqlain, MS LGH Dr Ghulam Sabir, Director Monitoring Health Department Zaheer Iqbal Malik and Consultant Dr Haq Nawaz Bharwana attended the meeting. The Turkish experts briefed the Secretary regarding their observations during the visit of different teaching hospitals of Lahore. They informed that in Turkey separate emergency departments were established for which dedicated staff have been deployed. They were of the opinion that by deploying dedicated staff and head of the emergency departments, create ownership and sense of responsibility.