Punjab Health Secretary Jehanzeb Khan has urged upon the principals of medical colleges and chief executives of autonomous medical institutions to come up with solid recommendations for the promotion of medical education, improvement of hospitals working, modification in service delivery system and to solve the issues of doctors by optimum utilisation of available financial as well as human resources so that best healthcare facilities could be provided to the people of the province.
He said this while presiding over a meeting of principals and chief executives of public sector medical colleges and autonomous medical institutions on Saturday. He said that long term as well as short-term steps should be proposed to redress the issues. He said that government’s first priority is to promote medical education by improving the education system of medical colleges and to enhance the confidence of people in public sector hospitals.
The secretary further said that each hospital must evolve system for the guidance of the patients coming to the hospital especially in emergency department for saving them from various hassles. He said that efficient hospital management is the prime responsibility of every head of the institution. Additional Health Secretary (Technical) Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Sulehriya, Deputy Secretary Saleha Saeed also attended the meeting.
The participants put forward various proposals for the provision of best educational facilities in medical colleges and to reduce the workload on the teaching hospitals.
They said that by strengthening the primary as well as secondary healthcare system at DHQ and THQ hospitals, the patients load on the tertiary care hospitals could be reduced. They also proposed that filter clinics should also be strengthened so that ordinary health issues could be solved at local level.
The meeting discussed the issues relating to the post graduate trainee doctors, establishment of quality assurance system in medical institutions, enforcement of technical audit in major hospitals, presence of senior doctors / consultants in the hospitals and the mechanism of attachment of district as well as tehsil headquarters hospitals with the teaching hospitals. Health secretary directed that special counters and computerised guideline system must be installed in each hospital to facilitate patients.
