Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Friday inaugurated the Clinics on Wheels project in Lahore, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
While addressing the opening ceremony of the Clinic on Wheels project, Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said “I am grateful that Allah Almighty has given me success in achieving another goal in the field of health”.
Maryam Nawaz said that in the last five years, Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif did the right things, which were reversed.
Maryam Nawaz said that when she went to deliver free medicine, the satisfaction and happiness on the faces of the patients cannot be described. “I am happy that health facility is being taken to the doorstep of people”, said Maryam Nawaz.
She said that it is not just a vehicle but a whole clinic which will be parked at the doorstep of the people, Maryam Nawaz added.
The CM said that the ‘Clinic on Wheels program was started so that the poor did not have to go to the hospital for minor ailments.
She said people are so busy in earning bread for their children that they cannot take time for their health.
“Kudos to Shehbaz Sharif for starting the Clinic on Wheels programme,” she added.
Shahbaz Sharif, you will be happy to know that your daughter has added 200 Clinics on Wheels to this program, Maryam Nawaz said.
Clinic on Wheels will have one doctor, one LHV and one dispenser, free of cost medical tests, free medicines and screening facilities, Maryam Nawaz Sharif said.
Clinic on Wheels will have vaccination and antenatal care facilities, malaria, diabetes and pediatric treatment facilities, Maryam Nawaz Sharif added.
She said that Clinics on Wheels will be located around cities in areas where health facilities are not available and people have to travel far.
Six days a week from nine in the morning to three in the morning, the Clinic on Wheels will provide treatment on people's doorsteps, Maryam Nawaz said.
Over 4 million people will receive medical services from Clinics on Wheels, she added.
It has also started a field hospital project to provide healthcare facilities to the people at their doorstep, Maryam Nawaz said.
Maryam Nawaz said that two to three thousand patients are treated daily free of cost in field hospitals.
“I am self-monitoring the field hospital project and take feedback from the patients over the phone”, Maryam Nawaz said.
Today, even after so many days, not a single complaint has been received from the field hospital, the CM said.
She said that Punjab government has added 100 ambulances in the ambulance service.
Ambulances will provide free service to pick up and drop pregnant women, said Maryam Nawaz.
More than 500 ambulances are already doing this, 100 more ambulances have been added, she said.
Ambulances will take pregnant women from their homes to the hospital and then return home from the hospital, Maryam Nawaz said.
Bringing a comprehensive program for presence of doctors in government hospitals, BHUs and RHCs, she said.
There will not be a single government-level health facility in Punjab where a doctor is not present, Maryam Nawaz assured.
She said shortage of nurses and paramedical staff are also being addressed.
Bringing a new policy under which local doctors of each district will be given preference for jobs in hospitals, Maryam Nawaz announced.
She further announced that Punjab is hiring 500 consultants in government health centers.
“I would like to congratulate the doctors at Jinnah Hospital for the successful kidney transplant of the child”, Maryam Nawaz said.
It was decided that every district of Punjab should have facilities for treatment of heart diseases and treatment facilities for children, Maryam Nawaz said.
In the first phase, state-of-the-art cardiology facilities are being built in eight districts of Punjab, she announced.
“I am trying to launch free insulin program in Punjab”, Maryam Nawaz said.