Shehbaz Sharif opens extension project of THQ Raiwind

LAHORE, Jan 10 (APP):Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz
Sharif on Wednesday inaugurated the extension project of THQ
Hospital Raiwind.
The number of the beds has also been increased from 60 to 100
beds through public-private partnership.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, the chief minister said that
Orthopedic and Gyne Wards had been established along with
provision of state-of-the-art operation theater and latest
machinery for providing quality medical facilities to people.
He pointed out that new hospitals were being established
across the province where the latest facilities were provided
besides installing CT Scan machines in all the DHQ
hospitals and hepatitis filter clinics had also been set up in
every district.
“Now patients will not have to go to big cities for CT
Scan or MRI as these facilities will be available in their
areas. We have totally changed the outdated system and nobody
will ever dare to say this to the patients that CT Scan
machine is out of order or his duty time is over,the company
which has set up the CT Scan machine will also be responsible
for its working round-the-clock,” he said.
He said that samples of medicines were sent to European
laboratories for examination and it had happened for the first
time that not a single sample had been rejected. In the past,
50 per cent samples were rejected.
He said that mobile health units were providing the best
healthcare facilities in remote areas. Keeping in view their
efficacy, 25 mobile health units have also been imported.
Some of them have reached here which will be sent to
remote areas.
Similarly, 40 hospitals had been modernised in different
districts of the province and high-quality facilities were
being provided to patients.
He said the Punjab government had completed electricity generation
projects of 5000 megawatts capacity from its own resources and
work was in progress on other projects as well.
He said:” Niazi Sahib, you blatantly deceived the nation; lied and
created anarchy. Now what face will you show to the people?
You leveled allegations of corruption of billions of rupees
to me and I took you to the court but you did not appear
before it. It would have been better if you could prove the
allegations as well. Please appear before the court and if you
prove the allegations of corruption then I shall go home and
you can replace me. You have been deceiving the
nation by continuously speaking lies during the last more than
four years and it was you who made an accusation of spending
an amount of 70 billion rupees on Lahore Metro Bus but you
could not prove it till today. I have been continuously crying
that only 30 billion rupees have been spent on it”.
He said:”If we succeed in the KPK in the elections of
2018 then I promise that Peshawar Metro Bus project will be
operationalized within a year”.
He said the PML-N government had taken unprecedented steps
for the development and prosperity of the people and if the
masses gave an opportunity of serving to them again, then
Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and other cities will be totally
transformed.
The nation should elect such a leadership that could make
Pakistan a state which was envisioned by Quaid and Iqbal by
following the norms of honesty, trust and hardwork, he said.
He added that first phase of PKLI had been inaugurated and the
credit went to its management. Multan Kidney Center, hospital in
Raiwind and five other hospitals of Lahore along with Recep
Tayyip Erdogan Hospital of Muzaffargarh had been handed over
to the Indus Trust which has been managing them in the best of
manner. The head of this trust Dr Abdul Bari is a saint-like
personality and his team is serving the patients honestly and
without any lust.
He also thanked that Health Minister Kh Imran Nazir,
Minister Tanvir Aslam Malik, Secretary Health Ali Jan Khan
and Secretary C&W Mian Mushtaq who had given a new life
to this hospital.
The Chief Minister took a round of the hospital after the
inauguration and inquired the patients about the medical
facilities provided to them. He also talked with the doctors
and other staff and expressed the satisfaction that all the
staff was diligently serving the patients. He also visited the
filter clinic and inspected the medical facilities there.
He presided over a meeting in the committee room and directed
that a number of counters for the outdoor patients should be
increased to avoid them from wait.