RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Wednesday took discover of the low wages of the labourers throughout her go to to the Holy Household Hospital and directed the authorities to pay the labourers in response to the Punjab Minimal Wages Act.
She additionally requested the communication and works division to finish the development work in Holy Household Hospital as quickly as attainable and mentioned the federal government wouldn’t tolerate any negligence within the high quality of development work.
She requested the hospital administration to enhance the companies for the sufferers and the federal government had zero tolerance for the unavailability of high quality healthcare services to the sufferers. She additionally requested to make preparations for the attendants of gynae sufferers and others through the summer time season.
Throughout her shock go to, she inspected numerous wards and inquired in regards to the sufferers and the provision of medicines. Some sufferers apprised CM Maryam Nawaz in regards to the issues being confronted by them on the hospital. The CM, who prayed for his or her early restoration, inquired from them in regards to the provision and availability of medicines.
CM pays shock go to, needs renovations completed by June
Throughout the go to, CM Maryam directed the hospital to rearrange sheds and electrical followers for the attendants of the sufferers who had been utilizing handheld followers in excessive climate.
She additionally directed rapid steps for the therapy of a child named Hasnain who had a congenital coronary heart defect (generally generally known as a gap within the coronary heart). On the orders of CM Maryam Nawaz, a crew of docs from the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology instantly reached the Holy Household Hospital.
The CM comprehensively reviewed the newly constructed and rehabilitated block of the hospital and likewise examined the under-construction New Block of Holy Household Hospital. She directed the communications and works division to finish the work by June 30.
Delayed hospital undertaking
The Holy Household Hospital revamping undertaking price over Rs3 billion has not been accomplished though January 30 was the deadline for the completion. The undertaking to reconstruct the outdated and new blocks of Holy Household Hospital began on October 22. After it missed the Jan deadline, the division was given until February by then caretaker chief minister Mohsin Naqvi, who inaugurated the unfinished undertaking.
The contractor missed the deadline once more and the Punjab authorities led by the PML-N gave one other unrealistic deadline of March 31 to complete the work.
Punjab Well being Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique had requested the Communication and Works Division to finish the work by March 31 and make operation theatres useful earlier than Eidul Fitr.
The Communication and Works Division nonetheless couldn’t end the work. Now, June’s finish is the closing date for the division handy over the hospital to its administration. The hospital has a complete space of 672,000 sq. ft. The variety of beds within the hospital wards is 1,030 whereas the common variety of sufferers reported within the OPD is 2,161, 228 sufferers in wards, and 915 sufferers in emergency each day.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty third, 2024