As many as 86 head nurses, promoted recently on the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, have been posted at Lahore General Hospital (LGH) on Sunday.
The Punjab Health Department has promoted a total of 1,211 charge nurses as head nurses in grade 17 who had been working as charge nurses after getting recruited during 1986 to 1993 in the Health Department.
With the addition of 86 more head nurses, now the number of total head nurses working at LGH has reached to 119.
Post Graduate Medical Institute Principal and Lahore General Hospital Professor Anjum Habib Vohra said that for the first time history of Pakistan such a huge number of nurses have been promoted to grade 17 as head nurses for which Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif rightly deserves congratulation. He has proved himself as the real benefactor of health sector by giving basic right of promotion to the nurses who were working as charge nurses since long, he added. He said that standard of health care system in province would definitely improve as a result of this revolutionary decision of the Punjab chief minister.
Vohra further said that newly posted head nurses would be equally given responsibilities in all the three shifts at LGH in order to bring about a uniform enhancement in the performance in ward management of all the departments. He stressed upon the head nurses to serve with more dedication and devotion as their role is very vital in the health delivery system. He said that the chief minister and advisor to chief minister on health Khawaja Salman Rafique have not only pleased the nurse folk but also have reprieved the patients and their attendants who always depend on nurse’s cooperation and kindness for recovery from ailment.
