Special Assistant to Prime Minister for Health Dr Zafar Mirza in a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar, here on Friday, has assured all out support to the provincial government for provision of better healthcare facilities to the masses. During the meeting both discussed different matters including improvement in the health sector and continuation of immunization drive with further zeal and effectiveness. Strategy with regard to anti-polio drive also came under discussion, the sources said.
Sardar Usman Buzdar said on the occasion that the government is striving to transform the hospitals as exemplary institutions in the province and to achieve this goal; implementation of the roadmap is in progress to provide most modern medical facilities to the people.
The CM maintained that reforms are being introduced to synchronize the traditional healthcare system with the latest needs and requirements. The ongoing health sector reforms programme will soon yield far reaching effects and fruits of funds allocated for the provision of latest medical facilities will be transferred to the people. Every promise made with the people will be fulfilled and all have to work collectively for the success of the immunization campaign, he added.
Moreover, the Vice-Chancellor Nishtar Medical College Multan Prof Dr Mustafa Kamal Pasha also met Sardar Usman Buzdar and presented him a cheque of Rs2 million for the Dam fund. Talking on the occasion, the CM said that construction of the dam is utmost necessary for the future of Pakistan. He said that credit for laying the foundation stone of the Mohmand Dam goes to Prime Minister Imran Khan and everyone should enthusiastically take part in the national cause of construction of the dam.
Talking to different delegations, the CM said that past rulers exhausted the national kitty by following wrong policies but the present government has provided resources on priority basis for public welfare schemes despite the financial crunch.