Lahore : A 9-member Turk delegation of public health experts currently on a 10-day tour of the province of Punjab have completed the assessment regarding extent of implementation of family medicine model and early disease warning system on the analogy of Turkish healthcare system in district Kasur as a pilot project.
This was disclosed by the head of Turkish delegation Dr. HassanShah in a meeting with Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shmail Ahmad Khawaja during the concluding meeting here Saturday with the Turkish delegation at the office of Infrastructure Development Authority Punjab.
Minister for Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Kh. Salman Rafique, Minister for Primary & Secondary Healthcare Kh. Imran Nazir, Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Najam Ahmad Shah and Secretary Primary & Secondary Healthcare Ali Jan Khan were also present on the occasion.
He said that for this purpose family medicine information system and a pathological laboratory service will be established before launching of the new pilot project with the collaboration of Turkish public health experts.
Government of the Punjab has appointed ten dedicated field coordinators to accomplish this task while the Turkish government will nominate five permanent consultants to run this collaborative programme all over the province in future
