ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (APP): Balochistan Parliamentary Secretary for Information Bushra Rind on Saturday said that the provincial government has upgraded eight district headquarters hospitals to teaching hospitals in order to ensure the best health care facilities for the masses.
In a statement, she said the Balochistan government is all set to revamp the health sector on modern lines and provide equipments to fulfill the need of the hour. She said the government has been working to ensure the availability of medicines in public hospitals of the province. The government has started work on upgradation and renovation of the government hospitals in the province, Bushra said, and informed that the government has already released Rs 50 million for the purpose. She said the provincial government is committed to provide missing facilities to hospitals across the province.
The government has also established dialysis centres at various districts and vacancies have been created for the required staff. The Provincial government is taking various steps to ensure presence of concerned medical officials and paramedics in the hospitals of all far-flung areas of the province, she noted.
She said that the Balochistan government has created 1026 new vacancies for doctors to facilitate the poor patients in the remote areas of the province. Bushra Rind said the government appointed medical officers, lady medical officers and paramedical staff in the health department on a contract and adhoc basis. The Provincial Government and the bureaucracy are committed to bring about positive change in the province by carrying out development activities on the fast track.
The initiative was taken on the instruction of CM Jam Kamal Khan to provide maximum relief to the masses. Planned, quality and timely development is the only way forward for taking Balochistan out of its deprivation, she concluded.
Rind said that the government is striving hard to bring all less developed areas at par with the developed ones. She assured that all pending schemes would be completed within due course of time for which funds have been released by the provincial government.
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