The Punjab Health Foundation's Board of Directors Tuesday approved a scheme through which the Foundation will offer interest-free loans of Rs 2.5 million to the doctors of specialized as well as primary and secondary healthcare.
Training and short courses up to three to 18 months within country as well as abroad will be arranged for the capacity buildings of the doctors so that they could keep themselves abreast with the modern interventions and new techniques introduce in the medical field.
The board meeting presided over by Special Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Saqib Mannan was attended by Secretary Services S&GAD Farhan Aziz Khawaja Prof Eice Muhammad, Dr Amjad Saqib, Managing Director PHF Ajmal Bhatti, Chief Health P&D Salim Masih and other officers concerned.
The board of directors gave approval of the minutes of finance and technical committee meeting and reviewed the loan applications furnished by the Homeopaths, Hakeems, LHVs and other categories of health professionals. The Board directed the Foundation that scope of work of these categories should be obtained from the Punjab Healthcare Commission and minimum service delivery standard should also be discussed with the Punjab Healthcare Commission before taking any action on these loan applications.
The meeting decided that a scrutiny committee consisting on representatives of Specialized Healthcare Department, Punjab Regulation Department and PHF should be constituted to evaluate the cases of daily wages employees individually and present its recommendations.