LAHORE, Feb 26 (APP):Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad
Shehbaz Sharif has said the United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) should provide Pakistan technical assistance instead of
any financial aid.
He said this while talking to a high-level delegation of
UNICEF which met him here on Monday.
Shehbaz Sharif said that public welfare projects would be
completed from indigenous resources by the Punjab government.
He appreciated the cooperation rendered by the UNICEF for
mother and child health schemes, basic education and other
sectors.
Due to the efforts of Punjab government, a new culture of
public service delivery has been introduced in the government
hospitals and due to it people prefer public sector hospitals
for their treatment now.
He said that ambulance programme was going on
successfully for transfer of patients from villages to the
hospitals. Meanwhile, provision of higher education has been
ensured for bright but deserving students through PEEF and
government also provided 40,000 tablets to the schools for
bringing improvements in their standard of education.
The meeting was told that UNICEF is providing training to
the staff of more than four thousand union councils in the
province and 34 water filtration plants were being established
initially for the provision of clean drinking water.
