The CM visits Punjab Institute of Cardiology

Lahore : Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, immediate after his return from Turkey, paid a surprise visit to Punjab Institute of Cardiology without any protocol, today.

He reached the hospital without any prior intimation and inquired from the attendants of the patients present outside emergency ward about treatment facilities being provided in the hospital. He inquired after the patients in the emergency and inspected the facilities being extended to the patients regarding treatment. He also issued necessary instructions to hospital administration for the treatment of some patients.

Shahbaz Sharif also visited modern lab of the hospital and appreciated the performance of the laboratory equipped with modern facilities for diagnostic tests of the patients. He reviewed the cleanliness arrangements in washrooms of the hospital and appreciated the hospital administration for best hygienic arrangements. Some patients and their attendants requested the Chief Minister free treatment and financial assistance, upon which, Shahbaz Sharif announced free treatment and financial assistance for the poor patients and their attendants on the spot and issued necessary instructions to the administration in this regard.

The patients and their attendants said  there is rush of patients due to which, treatment becomes difficult and doctors cannot pay full attention to the patients. Therefore, number of beds be increased in emergency, they added.

The Chief Minister said that today he has come to PIC without any prior intimation to see the patients and review treatment facilities. He said that hospitals have been constructed for the treatment of poor patients and poor patients have full right over quality health facilities. That is why, he is personally visiting the hospitals to review the facilities being extended to the patients in the hospitals, he added.

Shahbaz Sharif said that provision of best treatment facilities to the common man is included in his priorities and quality health facilities will be provided to them at every cost. He said that due to rush of patients in PIC, a new emergency block has been constructed which will be soon inaugurated. He directed hospital administration to take emergent measures for functioning of new block at the earliest.

The Chief Minister said that he has taken responsibility of providing quality health facilities to the patients and improvement of hospitals. He said that doctors and paramedical staff should serve the ailing humanity after becoming Masiha in the real sense.

Medical Superintendent of PIC was also present on the occasion.