MULTAN,March 22nd:Federal Health Minister Makhdoom Shahabuddin has said that new national health policy will be announced at the end of April this year and major work on the national health policy had been completed and various important steps had been suggested to provide maximum relief to the patients in the new health policy.Talking to newsmen here today he
said the government had been giving top priority to the health sector. He said huge funds had been allocated to provide healthcare to the masses at their doorsteps. Despite economic pressure the government would provide maximum funds to the health sector to meet the growing challenges in this regard, he commented.The Minister said that one of the growing future challenges is to overcome blindness in Punjab but the goal could be achieved only with sustainability and continuity in the work being done by all the stakeholders.He hoped that the next decade would be the period of success in countering ailments like blindness and all available resources would be utilised to eliminate the eye diseases from the society and to improve the state of healthcare to the patients.said that through primary health care system launched under the national programme for prevention and control of blindness in collaboration with primary healthcare and family planning, health management and information system, funds worth over Rs 120 million were being spent for the said purpose. Pakistan has focused to eliminate eye diseases by 2020 under Vision 2020, he added. He said the national programme had embarked upon a plan to impart training in primary eye care to 20,000 LHWs in Pakistan, and added that trained lady health workers were implementing primary eye care in the country. In Punjab, he said, the training was being imparted to LHWs at 13 training centres while 17 other such training centres were being upgraded in this regard.
said the government had been giving top priority to the health sector. He said huge funds had been allocated to provide healthcare to the masses at their doorsteps. Despite economic pressure the government would provide maximum funds to the health sector to meet the growing challenges in this regard, he commented.The Minister said that one of the growing future challenges is to overcome blindness in Punjab but the goal could be achieved only with sustainability and continuity in the work being done by all the stakeholders.He hoped that the next decade would be the period of success in countering ailments like blindness and all available resources would be utilised to eliminate the eye diseases from the society and to improve the state of healthcare to the patients.said that through primary health care system launched under the national programme for prevention and control of blindness in collaboration with primary healthcare and family planning, health management and information system, funds worth over Rs 120 million were being spent for the said purpose. Pakistan has focused to eliminate eye diseases by 2020 under Vision 2020, he added. He said the national programme had embarked upon a plan to impart training in primary eye care to 20,000 LHWs in Pakistan, and added that trained lady health workers were implementing primary eye care in the country. In Punjab, he said, the training was being imparted to LHWs at 13 training centres while 17 other such training centres were being upgraded in this regard.
