CM seeks plan to functionalise OPDs, operation theatres.

LAHORE -- Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has directed the health department to submit a comprehensive plan to fully functionalise the OPDs and operation theatres.

'The required steps should be taken within 10-days to facilitate the patients', he affirmed while presiding over a meeting on Monday.

The chief minister asked the Health minister to nominate focal persons to make optimal use of OPDs and operation theatres in every district. He also desired that a public awareness campaign should be run to guide the patients. He said that plugging the holes would improve the situation as patients faced difficulties due to lack of complete functioning of OPDs and operation theatres.

The CM expressed satisfaction that effective measures taken by the Punjab government had helped to overcome the spread of coronavirus as the number of cases was declining. He directed to ensure strict compliance of governmental instructions for restricting the spread of the virus. He appreciated that doctors and paramedics had performed invaluable service to control the virus and directed that adoption of precautionary measures should be ensured for them.

Minister Health Dr Yasmin Rashid, Chief Secretary, health secretaries and others attended the meeting.

PTI delegation from south meets Punjab CM

A delegation of PTI south Punjab led by president Noor Khan Bhabha and general secretary Ali Raza Dareshak called on Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar at his office here on Monday and discussed matters of mutual interest.

Talking on this occasion, the CM stated that south Punjab secretariat would be established in the next financial year adding that posts of additional chief secretary and additional IG police had been sanctioned for it. The PTI government was going to fulfil its promise of a south Punjab secretariat as it did what it said. He said that the secretariat would help solve the problems of the local people at their doorsteps.

The CM regretted that the past rulers ignored welfare of the masses living in southern Punjab and used the slogan of southern Punjab province for their political gains. The development funds meant for the prosperity of south Punjab were wasted on personal projection in the past but the incumbent government had ensured that development funds of southern Punjab districts are not ring-fenced.

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