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Lahore : Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif reviewed the steps taken to improve the healthcare system and expand the scope of the PM National Health Insurance Programme.
The Chairman CM Inspection Team presented the initial investigation report on implantation of sub-standard stents to patents in Mayo Hospital.
The meeting also reviewed the public private partnership model for the construction of new hospitals.
Addressing on this occasion, the Chief Minister said that the PM National Health Insurance Programme is a great project and it will be expanded to whole of the Punjab in phases.
He said in the first phase, PM Health Insurance Programme will be expanded to the south Punjab and all-out resources will be utilized to expand it to all 36 districts, and the Punjab Government will provide all possible resources for the expansion of this programme.
He ordered the authorities concerned to prepare a road-map for the PM Health Insurance Programme. We have to change the system which provides best health facilities to the rich and the poor die without getting any medical aid,he added.
He said that beds will be obtained in the private hospitals from the resources of Punjab Government to provide health facilities to poor patients. He ordered the authorities to demarcate the pieces of land for the establishment of hospitals at the divisional headquarters under the public private partnership.
Shahbaz Sharif said a new system is being introduced for the purchase transportation distribution and the storage of medicines and with this system based on modern technology embezzlement and corruption will be uprooted so that provision of medicines to the common man could be ensured.
He said that Vice Chancellor King Edwards Medical University will present a report on alleged death of a female patent in the services hospital due to non -availability of ventilator.
He said that a strategy has been evolved to overcome the shortage of nephrologists in government hospitals. He detected the authorities to pursue uniform strategy regarding the purchase of stents.
Provincial Ministers Kh. Salman Rafiq, Kh. Imran Nazir, Dr. Ayesha Ghaus Pasha, Advisor Umar Saif, Chief Secretary, Additional Chief Secretary, Secretary Health, Health Experts and concerning officers also attended the meeting.
