LARKANA, Dec 28 (APP): Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, has said that Sindh has the best health facilities available, and no one can compete with the Sindh government in the health sector. The Sindh government is taking comprehensive measures for the welfare of the people.
He expressed these views while talking to the media on Sunday after inaugurating the Intensive Care Unit for children and newborns at the Children’s Hospital in Larkana, under the Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology.
He said that before the Pakistan Peoples Party government, the infant mortality rate was high in Sindh. The mortality rate in Sindh is now decreasing rapidly. A lot of work has been done in the health sector in Sindh after the 18th Amendment. The Sindh government is taking robust measures for the welfare of the people. Like NICVD, NICH also exists in Karachi in Sindh. There are four centers of it in Karachi. Besides, its centers are also present in Nawabshah, Sukkur, Larkana, and Jamshoro.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the Sindh government was doing work that was not happening in other provinces. In Sindh, patients are being provided 100 percent free medical facilities. We are trying to provide children with 100 percent free medical facilities according to international standards, he added.
He said that the common man was struggling to make ends meet with his salary. It is essential to provide the public with quality treatment and healthcare facilities. It is our duty to provide facilities to the people, he said.
In response to a question, he said that we are very grateful to Prime Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif and PML-N leader Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who sent their delegation to Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto on the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto.
On this occasion, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah, PPP Sindh President Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, Health Minister Sindh Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho, MPA Nida Khuhro, MNA Khursheed Ahmed Junejo and others were present.