Health Department’s Top Brass visits Rural Health Center “Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed” Kunjah

Lahore: Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that Rural Health Center “Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed” (Nishan-e-Haider) Kunjah, Gujrat will be upgraded to 40-bed Tehsil Headquarter Hospital level which would be helpful to provide better health facilities for the locals. He said that PC-I of the project has been approved on which work will be started soon.

He said this, while talking to the media persons after visiting the Rural Health Centre. Commissioner Gujranwala Division, Secretary Health Jawad Rafique Malik, Parliamentary Secretary Health, Khawaja Imran Nazir, DG Health Dr. Zahid Pervaiz, DCO Gujrat Liaqat Ali Chatha, Haji Imran Zafar MPA, PML-N local leader Ch. Raza Ali Warraich, EDO Health Dr. Ejaz Haider and a number of notables of the area were present on this occasion.

Khawaja Salman Rafique visited different wards of the RHC and inquired after the health of the patients. He also inspected proposed site for the new building of THQ hospital. DCO Liaqat Chatha and other officers briefed the Advisor, accordingly. Khawaja Salman Rafique narrated that after up-gradation of THQ hospital, additional staff including doctors and nurses would be appointed and residential colony for the doctors and staff would also be constructed for which chief consultant health department would visit RHC Kunjah very soon.

He welcomed the offer of donating land adjacent to the RHC by President Traders Association Kunjah, Qamar Khursheed.

Earlier, DCO Gujrat apprised the Advisor about the performance of RHC Kunjah. He said that Major Shabir Sharif Shaheed RHC is the only hospital on Mandi Bahauddin Road which is catering a load of more than 3 lac people and everyday more than 400 patients are visiting OPD of the RHC.

Local PML-N leader Ch. Mubashir Hussain and Ch. Raza Ali Warraich said that the up-gradation of RHC Kunjah is the long standing demand of the local people and by announcing the decision to upgrade the RHC to a THQ hospital, Punjab Government has won the hearts of people. The local notables appreciated the efforts of Punjab government and especially thanked the Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif for granting approval of up-gradation of the hospital.