Minister promises all healthcare facilities even in far-flung areas.

LAHORE -- Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has said that the government is making all-out efforts to provide the best possible healthcare facilities to people even in far-flung areas of the country as per the vision of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

She was presiding over a meeting of the implementing team at the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P and SHD), here on Saturday. The meeting was called to review the upgradation status of the basic health units (BHUs) to 24/7 model as well as progress of work under the prime minister health initiative.

The minister said that upgradation of the BHUs to 24/7 model was under way as per plan, and it would be completed before the given deadline. "Under this plan, all the BHUs will be upgraded to the 24/7 model to improve our indicators vis-a-vis mother and child health," she explained.

The minister said that Secretary P and SHD Captain (Retd) Usman Younis was personally supervising progress on it.

Dr Yasmin said after the upgradation, essential health services would be...

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