Secretary Health has allotted affected districts to different medical colleges

Lahore: On the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif special medical teams of medical colleges and teaching hospitals would conduct third party evaluation of performance of medical teams of Health Department working in flood affected districts. These teams would also conduct a survey regarding disease pattern and their prevention in the flood-hit areas.

In this connection, Secretary Health Jawad Rafique Malik has allotted affected districts to different medical colleges and the teaching hospitals have sent their teams in the field. These surveillance teams would conduct a survey at union council level and pay door to door visits to evaluate the performance of medical teams and pattern of diseases in the flood affected areas.

According to the notification issued from the office of Secretary Health, Quaid-e-Azam Medical College / Bahawal Victoria Hospital has been allotted Bahawalpur district, Punjab Medical College Faisalabad will look after Chiniot and Jhang, Gujranwala Medical College will go to district Gujranwala and Hafizabad, Aziz Bhatti Teaching Hospital Gujrat has been assigned Gujrat district, Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore will perform duties in Mandi Bahauddin, Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital Sialkot has been awarded district Sialkot and Narowal, Mayo Hospital will conduct survey and evaluation activities in district Sheikhupura, Nishter Hospital Multan has been given district Multan, DHQ Teaching Hospital DG Khan will perform duties in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur, Shaikh Zayed Medical College Rahim Yar Khan will be responsible for district Rahim Yar Khan, Rawalpindi Medical College has been given assignment of district Jhelum while District Headquarter Teaching Hospital Sargodha will monitor flood affected district of Sargodha.

The spokesman of Health Department said that special medical teams of the said medical colleges / teaching hospitals would comprise on one medical officer, a woman medical officer, a senior staff nurse and a paramedical staff. These teams would also carry essential medicines in an ambulance for the treatment of flood affectees. Secretary Health directed the principals of medical colleges and medical superintendents of teaching hospitals for immediately dispatch medical teams to their respective districts. These teams would perform duty under the supervision of EDO Health of the concerned district.  These teams would complete their work within four days regarding surveillance, monitoring and evaluation of mobile medical teams and disease pattern and submit a signed report to the Secretary Health so that a consolidated report could be sent to the Chief Minister Punjab for his perusal.