LAHORE: Health Minister Punjab Dr Yasmin Rashid on Thursday said that 2,717 women medical officers have been appointed in Punjab’s various cities, while 3,620 male medical officers will be hired this week.
These views were expressed by her, while chairing a high-level meeting, to review development projects and reforms’ process in the department.
“In order to meet shortage of the medical officers in the province, 2,717 women medical officers have been appointed through Public Service Commission, while 3,620 male medical officers will be appointed this week,” the minister said.
Yasmin Rashid, on December 21, had directed for making shelters for relatives of patients in public hospitals.
She was chairing a meeting of medical superintendents (MS) of the teaching hospitals in Lahore.
“Other public hospitals would also be equipped with such facility in the next phase,” said Minister Health, adding that provision of shelters at hospitals was actually implementation of vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
She further said, people who come from far flung areas in cold weather to see their loved ones admitted in hospitals would be facilitated. We cannot leave people alone for fighting hardships in the open sky” she continued.
Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid has said the arrangements for distributing of 10,000 health insurance cards have been completed in various districts.
She said this while chairing a meeting of Minister Delivery Unit on Thursday to review the progress of development and reform process of the health department.
The minister said 10,000 health insurance cards would be delivered in January in various districts. “More features have been added to the new health cards as compare to the previous ones,” she said.
Moreover, a requisition has also been dispatched to the Public Service Commission for the recruitment of 588 pharmacists. She said that revamping of the nine tehsil and district headquarters hospitals have been completed.
In the first phase four teaching hospitals at Lahore and Rawalpindi Holy Family Hospital would make arrangements for provision of shelters to fight out increasingly cold weather.
Apart from this, the PC-1 of revamping of the emergency of 13 big hospitals including Mio Hospital, Jinnah Hospital, Services, Ganga Ram, Holy Family hospitals, Rawalpindi District Hospital, Allied Hospital and others has been prepared. She announced that Fort Munro Hospital and Ghora Gali TB Hospital will be upgraded as a general hospital next year.
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