Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said he is trying to improve child health services, particularly in Tharparkar and other far flung areas. He said this in a meeting with a delegation of ChildLife Foundation at the CM House, here on Monday.
The chief minister said he has a clear plan to provide best health services for children at every teaching hospital, district headquarter hospital, taluka headquarter hospital and basic health units. This was motive of working in partnership with ChildLife Foundation.
Murad Shah was told special space or wards given to the ChildLife Foundation at different district hospitals and teaching hospitals would be launched very soon. The child ward to be operated by ChildLife Foundation at Shaheed Benazirabad would be opened on May 18, at Jamshoro on December 18 and at Sukkur on December 18.
The chief minister worried about children of Tharparkar where children still needs special attention. He directed the ChildLife Foundation to send their professional team to Mithi Civil Hospital to inspect their entire facility and give him a report within a week of the gaps and missing facilities there so that they could be addressed at the earliest. "We have equipped the Civil Hospital Mithi with all the latest facilities and equipments but still there are child mortality reports which are quite disturbing for me," he said, telling them he wants them to survey the facilities and the state of their operation at Mithi hospital and then give him report to upgrade it in partnership with ChildLife Foundation.
He stressed that pharmacy of teaching hospitals, DHQs and THQs also need to be improved, properly. "I want computerised record of all the government hospitals and health facilities so that proper check could be established," he said.
The chief minister said medicines are properly given to patients at all the government facilities all over Sindh but overall health services are comparatively better in those government hospitals where private sector is working in partnership with the government.
Murad Shah said he has given special attention to National Institute of Child Health and its services and equipments are being improved and its satellites would be established all over Sindh.