Mobile clinics to operate in Punjab
Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has announced that health services from 911 Clinics-on-Wheels will now be provided across the province.
Addressing the launching ceremony of the Clinic-on-Wheels Project Phase-II, she said, "The people of Punjab have suffered immensely in the last four years after the tenure of Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. The cancer patients had to come on the roads over being denied free medicines."
She highlighted, "Not only cancer but also hepatitis and cardiac diseases' medicines and insulin doses for two months are being delivered at the doorsteps of patients." People earlier had to take leave from their jobs and stand in queues for getting treatment and medicines. The health services from the Clinics-on-Wheels will be provided across Punjab.
She maintained, "The Clinic-on-Wheels project, which was initially started with 245 vehicles a few months earlier, is receiving excellent public feedback. Doctors, lady health visitors and allied staff are working in the rural areas in Clinics-on-Wheels, which also provide maternal and paediatric treatment and minor medical procedures."
The chief minister said air-conditioned vehicles had been purchased for the second phase of the scheme. "I felt immense pleasure by getting treatment like a normal patient in a government hospital. I got treatment by getting an admission slip from the hospital, underwent MRI scan and the doctors administered me injections," she said.
The chief minister said more than 10 million patients had been provided free treatment immediately through the Clinic-on-Wheels project. The clinics provide facilities for checking the blood pressure, undergoing screening and treatment of diseases.
She emphasised, "Children suffering from malnutrition in South Punjab will be treated immediately through the Clinics-on-Wheels."
The clinics will be tracked to prevent misuse of vehicles.
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