LAHORE (INP): Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has vowed to improve the health care system and directed the authorities that he wanted to see results according to resources provided to hospitals.
Chairing a high level meeting about the healthcare system in the province, the Chief Minister directed that Ambulances of the hospitals be handed over to Rescue 1122. He directed the Rescue 1122 and the health department to submit a comprehensive plan about the handover of ambulances and their proper use within a week.
Reliable sources said that there had been complaints that ambulances in the hospitals were being misused by the officials instead of their use for the patients. In many cases, drivers make excuses that the vehicles were out of order and thus cannot be used for the purpose they have been provided where as petrol and other charges are being regularly claimed by the drivers.
He said he would not sit until the health care system is changed that provides best possible facilities to the poor people. He said standard health facilities are the basic rights of the people and particularly referred to deaths of patients in government run hospitals who could not be provided with bed and treatment facilities.
He said so far the traditional health system is in force and the patients were not getting the desired facilities. He said it was their moral duty to provide relief to the suffering humanity.
Mian Shahbaz Sharif directed the computerisation of medicines provided by the government to hospital. He said the hospitals must be made real centre of treatment and said that by reforms they could being a real change.
He asked the provincial health Minister to personally visited hospitals in the province and see for himself the lack of facilities there.
