LAHORE (APP): Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that service to ailing humanity was a form of worship, helping and sympathizing hapless and the poor was the real aim of life.
Success in this world and the world hereafter as well as blessings of Allah Almighty will be earned only through service to ailing humanity. We will have to select only one from politics or service to the ailing humanity, he added.
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The Chief Minister said that government has made a programme of provision of CT scan machines in the hospital of every district of the province and would be operated by the companies that would provide these machines. He said that staff of the hospital would have no concern with these CT scan machines. This step of Punjab government will eliminate heinous trade due to which patients have to suffer in the shape of closer or out of order of machines, provided with billions of rupees of the poor nation, he added.
He said that the philanthropists have set excellent example of service to the people by setting latest emergency in Punjab Institute of Cardiology and this example would have to be forwarded in every sector.
He expressed these views while addressing an inaugural ceremony of modern emergency set up with the cooperation of friends of PIC at Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Sunday.
He said today is a day of pleasure that latest emergency block comprising 100-bed had been inaugurated in PIC and soon 100 more beds would be added into it and there would be a total of 200 beds in the emergency.
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He congratulated those who provided resources for construction of emergency and put their share in this noble cause. He said that the business community of the country had set an excellent example by establishing emergency equipped with modern facilities through their hard-earned money.
He said that in 1980s,the then Governor Punjab Lt. Gen. (R) Ghulam Gillani Khan and Chief Minister took the responsibility of setting up of Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore. Due to day and night efforts of all, this hospital was set up, he added.
He said that the then Chief Executive of the hospital Dr. Shehryar and doctors made it a state-of-the-art institute. Unfortunately, this institution did not make progress due to politics in the institution, he added. He said that the hospitals should be a source of service to the patients coming for treatment.
Shehbaz Sharif said that modern angiography lab had also been set up in the emergency and such labs should be constructed throughout Pakistan. He said that Punjab government had provided MRI, CT Scan and Angeo-lab at a cost of Rs. 80 crore in PIC and now it is basic responsibility of hospital management to benefit the patients from the latest machinery.
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Shehbaz Sharif said that Punjab government provides billions of rupees for the provision of free medicines to the patients and this money is of the poor nation and not property of anyone. He said that this money will be spent for the comfort of humanity.
He said that Punjab government centralized the system of procurement of medicines last year and an agreement was also signed in this regard but it was not implemented in every district of the province, upon which, he took strict notice and action is being taken against more than 600 DDOs.
They have been suspended and audit of all affairs conducted, he added.
Earlier, the Chief Minister inaugurated the newly constructed emergency in PIC and inspected emergency wards and medical facilities being provided to the patients. He also inquired after the patients under treatment in the wards. At the end of the ceremony, the Chief Minister distributed shields among the philanthropists taking part in this noble cause.
Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana Muhammad Iqbal, Advisor Health Khawaja Salman Rafique, Chairman APTMA Aamir Fiaz Sheikh, Khawaja Ahmed Hasaan, Provincial Ministers, Secretary Health, Members Assembly, doctors and friends of PIC were also present on the occasion.