LAHORE: The government of Punjab has decided to offer NGOs from various friendly countries to establish state-of-the-art hospitals and medical colleges in different areas of the province on public private partnership basis.
The newly established tertiary healthcare outlets will be offered to make use of health facilities and human resources available in nearby public sector hospitals while these newly established medical colleges on the basis of public private partnership would be allowed to affiliate the surrounding government sector hospitals for teaching as well as consultancy purposes along with assuming the management of these government sector hospitals.
The Punjab government would provide such well-reputed NGOs the land required for this purpose free of cost. This health reforms strategy was revealed in a meeting of special committee to review the arrangements of coming tour of technocrats of health sector to Ankra and Istanbul next week.
Punjab Additional Chief Secretary Shamail Ahmad Khawaja presided over the meeting which was attended by Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah, Special Secretary Dr Saajid Chuhan, Additional Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Faisal Zahoor, Punjab Emergency Services Director General Dr Rizwan Naseer and Member Health P&D Board Punjab Dr Shabana Haider.
The meeting was informed that on the special directions of Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, a high power 7-member delegation headed by Shamail Ahmad Khawaja, the Punjab ACS will leave for a week long study tour of Turkey on November 6, this year.
