“Better treatment is the right of every poor man,” said Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif while visiting Mayo Hospital Children’s Emergency Block along with Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.
She added,”Monitoring is needed in hospitals, especially in emergencies.” Both Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif inspected different sections of the Emergency, including step down care unit, nursing room, neonatal block and pharmacy. They interacted with the parents of sick children in the triage area. The Chief Minister directed the hospital authorities to improve upon their work ethics. Maryam Nawaz and Nawaz Sharif were briefed about the emergency block, being managed by Child Life Foundation. Administrator Child Life Foundation, Bushra Abbas apprised them about the procedure of patients’ admission, diagnosis and treatment.
The Chief Minister lamented,”No stone was left unturned in the destruction of health sector during the previous regime.” She added,”Had there been no privatization in the past, we would have been ahead of India in every field today.”
Madam Chief Minister called a meeting of the authorities concerned immediately after visiting Mayo Hospital Children’s Emergency Ward. She co-chaired the meeting along with Nawaz Sharif for the improvement of child emergencies across Punjab. Child Life Foundation CEO Ahsan Rabbani briefed the participants of the meeting that in every child emergency, life of a sick child can be saved with the fastest automation system.
It was briefed that the telemedicine program has become functional in the emergency wards of 153 hospitals across Punjab. He apprised the participants that Telemedicine control rooms have been established in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. Moreover, he said,”State-of-the-art child emergency blocks will be established in 18 hospitals in Punjab.”
A proposal to open OPDs till 10 PM in Punjab hospitals was also reviewed in the meeting. Madam Chief Minister directed the authorities concerned to ensure availability of dog bite vaccine in hospitals.
Senator Pervaiz Rashid, Senior Provincial Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, Information & Culture Minister Azma Zahid Bukhari, Health Ministers Khawaja Imran Nazir, Khawaja Salman Rafique and MNA Bilal Azhar Kayani attended the meeting. Dr. Azhar Kayani, Dr. Adnan Khan, Dr. Mehmood Ayaz and others were also present.
