Improvement in health sector underway: CM

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Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Friday said that billions of rupees were being spent to ensure provision of best health facilities to the people.
Chairing a high-level meeting to review health projects, he said that Punjab government was devoted to improving performance of the health sector and promotion of medical education. He said new hospitals and medical colleges were being constructed throughout the province.
In addition, he said, the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology and a 410-bed hospital in Bahawalpur would be fully functional by January 2013, while District Headquarters Hospital, Bhawalnagar, would be upgraded and foundation stone of a medical college at Bhakhar would also be laid soon.
Addressing the meeting, Shahbaz said the 410-bed hospital in Bahawalpur was in the last phase of its completion which would not only provide modern medical facilities to the people of Bahawalpur division, but also to those living in Sindh and Balochistan. He said rapid work was also going on to complete Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, which would provide medical care to cardiac patients.
He said a 310-bed hospital at Shahdra was being constructed, while upgradation work on DHQ hospital Sargodha was also being expeditiously completed.
The chief minister also warned that any delay in the completion of these public welfare projects was intolerable and ordered to further expedite the pace of construction work on new hospitals.

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