When the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will come into power, the health sector will be given the status of an industry so that best opportunities of service could be available to doctors, nurses and other staff associated with this sector and the brain drain abroad could be stopped, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz said on Saturday.
She was addressing the inaugural function of nightshift of OPD in Fatima Jinnah Medical College/Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Maryam said that Punjab CM Shahbaz Sharif gave special importance to the uplift of health and education sectors and for the first time in the history of the province, maximum funds were allocated for the health sector this year. She said that provision of free medicines and free dialysis of kidney patients and a pay package of Rs 5.5 billion for doctors were a candid proof of this fact.
Maryam said that the recent dengue epidemic was the worst of its kind and the CM took emergent steps for its eradication and due to untiring efforts of doctors, nurses, paramedics and experts, the death rate was controlled. She appreciated the efforts of the principal, MS and faculty for providing best facilities to students in Fatima Jinnah Medical College and best medical facilities to patients in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
BRAWL: Interestingly, a brawl erupted when the PML-N Cultural Wing vice-president was stopped by guards of Maryam, denying him access to Nawaz’s daughter. Rana Saeed Akhtar, husband of MPA Dr Zamurd Yasin, was barred from meeting Maryam. According to Saeed, he was talking to Maryam while her guard kept on pushing him away. He said that Maryam ordered guards to stop manhandling him as he was a party member but they did not listen to her. Saeed said that the guards kept on cursing and pushing him. Later, Maryam got up and walked into a room where Saeed, along with his wife, followed her but were stopped again. Feeling insulted, Saeed hit the guards which resulted in a brawl. The scuffle was settled afterwards.