Health care reforms in country to bring fruitful results for future generation: Dr Zafar Mirza.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to Prime Minister on National Health Services Regulations and Coordination Dr Zafar Mirza Thursday said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf government under the vision of Prime minister Imran Khan was initiating health reforms with objective to bring fruitful results towards quality health to future generation.

He said improvement in health and education system was one of the priorities of the Imran Khan's government and in this direction all hurdles were being removed with effective reforms so that quality health could be ensured in the hospitals and education system.

Pakistan needs trained human resources with state-of-the-art modern technologies, he said and added that PTI government has focused its attention towards quality health services to meet the international standards, he added.

He said MTI reforms would ensure performance audit of the doctors and financial audit of the hospitals, adding that the country hospitals would not be privatized while doctors would enjoy same status as before.

'However, the services of doctors showing poor performance could be terminated by the Board of Governors (BoG)", he added.

He regretted that senior doctors in hospitals have no any authority to appoint a single person so with these reforms they will get the chance to take decisions easily without any hurdles.

One Line budget will be given to the BoGs to make their own decision rapidly so that the patients could get maximum relief without delay, he added.

He said with these reforms doctors will also be able to get the options to work in private hospitals as well.

He said doctors and authorities in hospitals are working with their own personal interests instead of public welfare so there is dire need to change the old system where our young doctors are also affecting badly.

He said Imran Khan's government was committed to decreasing the financial burden and ensuring affordable healthcare for every citizen through implementation of health care reforms.

Zafar Mirza said reforms would be introduced by rectifying administrative and management system of the government hospitals which were currently in poor state of affairs.

Referring to the doctors' protest , he said the PTI government would not step back from introducing the reforms in the public sector hospitals at any cost. A few doctors were politically...