The National Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Tuesday emphasised the need to establish two or three new hospitals similar to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad to cope with the huge number of patients.
The NA body also directed that Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) may take up this issue with Capital Development Authority (CDA) and come up with proposals so that the committee can support them accordingly.
The Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat met at the Parliament House and discussed various issues related to CADD, in the absence of Chairman Rana Muhammad Hayat Khan, MNA Asad Umar, who is also a member of the committee presided over the meeting.
Minister of State for CAAD Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhary and MNAs Malik Ibrar Ahmed, Parveen Masood Bhatti, Nighat Parveen Mir, Shahnaz Saleem, Seema Mohiuddin Jameeli, Farhana Qamar, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Nafeesa Inayatullah Khan Khattak, Syed Ali Raza Abidi, Muhammad Rehan Hashmi and Moulvi Agha Muhammad were present in the meeting.
The NA body said that CAAD should take steps to provide all the basic facilities along with equipment and qualified doctors at all the basic health units (BHU) and rural health centers (RHC) to reduce burden of patients on PIMS and Polyclinic hospitals.
The committee praised the different ongoing projects of PIMS and directed that PIMS may take stringent measures to complete all the projects at the earliest so that patients can get proper facilities at the hospital.
Administrator of PIMS Dr Altaf said that Federal Breast Cancer Screening Centre at PIMS would be made fully functional within two months. He said that 40,000 women had died due to breast cancer and that over 90,000 patients of breast cancer were diagnosed every year.
He said that around 30,000 to 50,000 Thalassemia patients were registered every year across the country and added that treatment of Thalassemia patients at PIMS’s Thalassemia Centre would be extended from 50 to 100.
The CAAD minister informed the committee that bio-metric system was being installed at all the institutions working under CAAD to ensure full attendance in offices.
The CAAD secretary said that construction of a hostel for female doctors at Federal Government Polyclinic (FGPC) would be completed next month.
The committee discussed the Disabled Persons Employment and Rehabilitation (Amendment Bill, 2014) which was unanimously passed.
The committee expressed concern over the issue of daily-wage teachers and directed that CAAD may resolve the issue at the earliest so that studies of the students may not suffer.
