LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Friday approved handing over of hospitals in Mianwali and Talagang to Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital Trust and Indus Hospital. The operational management of mother and child hospital Mianwali will be given to Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital Trust to be run on Indus Hospital model; while the management of THQ Hospital Talagang and Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Hospital would also be handed over to the Trust.
The chief minister took this decision in a meeting with a delegation of the Trust and Indus Hospital at the chief minister’s office. The delegation comprised of Trust’s chairman Mian M Ahsan, Indus Hospital Health Network chairman Abdul Karim Paracha, president Dr Abdul Bari Khan, CEO (North) Dr Tasman, and marketing head Salman Hamid. Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid, Hafiz Ammar Yasir MPA, Raasikh Elahi, former principal secretary GM Sikandar, former BoP president Hamesh Khan and others were also present. It was further decided in the meeting that the Indus Hospital would ensure operational management of both the hospitals while mother and child hospital Mianwali and nursing college would be operationalised in partnership with Indus Hospital and Health Network. Parvez emphasised that the government was providing the best healthcare facilities in partnership with the private sector and added that patients would be given free medicine in government hospitals. Mian Ahsan assured to operationalise the Mianwali Hospital at the earliest while the CM was told that Recep Tayyip Erdogan Hospital Trust and Indus Hospital are managing nine hospitals and regional blood centres while providing free treatment to 3.5 million patients annually.
MOTHER/CHILD BLOCK AT GANGARAM HOSPITAL TO BE OPENED SOON: MINISTER
Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid on Friday said the Mother and Child Block in Gangaram Hospital Lahore would be opened to the public soon. She informed this during her visit to the under-construction Mother and Child Block at Gangaram Hospital here.
She said that construction of the block had entered the final stages. She said that 11 mother and child hospitals were being built to ensure the health of mother and child, adding, the lives of thousands of mothers and children would be protected through mother and child hospitals in the province.
She said that a network of the government hospitals was being laid in the province as Pakistan was a signatory of reducing the rate of delivery deaths of mother and child. She added that 23 large government hospitals were being built in view of the increase in the population of Punjab. The minister said the mother and child block would comprise of 600 beds. She said that free treatment facility was being provided to the people through Sehat Sahulat card as well.
Earlier, the minister reviewed the ongoing progress including the emergency and other departments of the block.
On this occasion, PRO Vice Chancellor Fatima Jinnah Medical University Professor Dr Shamsa, MS Gangaram Hospital Dr. Athar, Project Director Ijaz Sheikh and C&W officials were present.
