MULTAN,April 5th: Punjab Minister for Population Welfare Neelam Jabbar Chaudhry has said serving ailing people is a noble job of paramedics and nurses and they are performing their duties as a sacred mission.She was talking to a delegation of Pakistan Muslim Paramedical Welfare Association headed by Malik Munir Ahmed here on Saturday.
She said the present government was committed to upgrading the service structure of paramedics as well as nursing services and sensitized problems being faced by the most vital sector of healthcare system."The government feels the paramedics sector was neglected in the past, therefore, steps were being taken to boost the cadre and upgrade the socio-economic condition of people concerned besides improve working skill of paramedics," she added.Neelam said that it was the need of the hour to upgrade the curriculum of paramedics according to modern requirements.Secretary concerned at surge in polio cases: Khushnood Akhter Lashari, federal secretary health has called upon senior health managers to double their efforts for immunization by improving the vaccination coverage through EPI.While presiding over a review meeting of Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Pakistan here Saturday the federal secretary health expressed his concern over Polio cases reported in different parts of the country. The meeting reviewed National Programme for Polio eradication and routine child immunization.The federal secretary said the federal government and the all the provincial governments were committed to providing a full immunization cover to all eligible children and women.He expressed his satisfaction over the strategies presented by the programme to vaccinate every mother and child in the country.Dr. Altaf Bosan presented the annual progress report of EPI to the federal secretary health and the director generals' health of all the provinces of the country.
Besides the health officer of all four provinces, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and International health experts of WHO, UNICEF, JICA and health specialists from across the country attended the meeting..
She said the present government was committed to upgrading the service structure of paramedics as well as nursing services and sensitized problems being faced by the most vital sector of healthcare system."The government feels the paramedics sector was neglected in the past, therefore, steps were being taken to boost the cadre and upgrade the socio-economic condition of people concerned besides improve working skill of paramedics," she added.Neelam said that it was the need of the hour to upgrade the curriculum of paramedics according to modern requirements.Secretary concerned at surge in polio cases: Khushnood Akhter Lashari, federal secretary health has called upon senior health managers to double their efforts for immunization by improving the vaccination coverage through EPI.While presiding over a review meeting of Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) Pakistan here Saturday the federal secretary health expressed his concern over Polio cases reported in different parts of the country. The meeting reviewed National Programme for Polio eradication and routine child immunization.The federal secretary said the federal government and the all the provincial governments were committed to providing a full immunization cover to all eligible children and women.He expressed his satisfaction over the strategies presented by the programme to vaccinate every mother and child in the country.Dr. Altaf Bosan presented the annual progress report of EPI to the federal secretary health and the director generals' health of all the provinces of the country.
Besides the health officer of all four provinces, including Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and International health experts of WHO, UNICEF, JICA and health specialists from across the country attended the meeting..
