The Punjab government is spending funds to uplift the health sector and free medicines worth Rs 7.53 billion would be provided in government hospitals to the poor during the current fiscal year.
This was stated by Punjab Minister Health Khalil Tahir Sindhu while presiding over a high-level meeting on Wednesday.
Punjab Health Secretary Hassan Iqbal, Health Development Additional Secretary Usman Ali Khan and others officers also attended the meeting.
The minister said as compared to the previous year, the incumbent Punjab government had provided 19 percent additional budget for the provision of health services in Punjab, and more than Rs 1 billion additional funds had been allocated for the provision of free medicines in the government hospitals. He directed that Health Department to evolve strict monitoring system to check the provision of free medicines to the deserving patients.
