Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz visited Mayo Hospital along with former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz and Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif reached Mayo Hospital Children’s Emergency Block.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif inspected various areas of child emergency. Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif interacted with the parents of sick children in the triage area. They also inspected the step-down area, nursing room, neonatal block pharmacy.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif were briefed about the emergency block organized by the Child Life Foundation. Bushra Abbas, the administrator of the Child Life Foundation informed about the admission, diagnosis and treatment procedures of the patient.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz and Quaid Muhammad Nawaz Sharif talk to parents, listen to suggestions Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif called a meeting immediately after visiting the Mayo Emergency Ward. For improvement, the proposal to hold OPD in Punjab hospitals till 10 pm was reviewed.
Child Life Foundation CEO Ahsan Rabbani briefed the participants of the meeting to ensure the availability of dog bite vaccine in hospitals. No child in Punjab should be more than 30 minutes away from a quality emergency and in every child emergency. A sick child’s life can be saved with the fastest automation system.
The telemedicine program has become functional in the emergency wards of 153 hospitals across Punjab. Telemedicine control rooms have been established in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore. The latest child emergency blocks will be established in 18 hospitals of Punjab. The participants of the meeting were briefed.
Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz said that there is an urgent need to improve work ethics in government offices and hospitals. Hospitals need monitoring especially in emergencies. No effort was spared in the destruction of the health sector during the previous regime. Better treatment is the right of every poor man. If there was no privatization in the past, India would be ahead of India in every field today.
Senior Provincial Minister Maryam Aurangzeb, Senator Pervaiz Rasheed, Information Minister Uzma Zahid Bukhari, Provincial Health Ministers Khawaja Imran Nazir, Khawaja Salman Rafiq, MNA Bilal Azhar Kayani, Dr. Azhar Kayani, Dr. Adnan Khan, Dr. Mehmood Ayaz and others were also present.
