Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique has directed Executive District Officers (Health) to complete forecast of yearly procurement requirements and ensure availability of all essential medicines at health facilities.
He said this while presiding over a meeting of EDOs Health at Directorate General Health Services here on Saturday. Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Ali Jan Khan, Director General Health Services Punjab Dr Mukhtar Hussain Syed, EDOs (Health) of all districts, representatives of Punjab Information Technology Board, Policy and Strategic Planning Unit, Programme Managers, UNICEF, WHO and international development partners attended the meeting.
The Chief Minister Roadmap team presented data analysis on key performance indicators. He further said that hospital cleanliness be given special focus.
Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Ali Jan Khan said that Health Department should work on devolving more powers to divisions with a view to ensuring the accountability and improvement of performance. Director General Health Services Dr Mukhtar Hussain Syed directed EDOs to complete and submit the lists of paramedics and allied staff for rationalisation of promotions as per given procedures. He said the DG Office has prepared disease calendar to forecast and plan in advance and asked the EDOs to plan their preparations on monthly calendar. He also directed the EDOs to share data of general practitioners so that alerts could be shared with them on regular basis. Director EPI Dr Munir Ahmed asked the eight districts Lahore, Multan, DG Khan, RY Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Rawalpindi, Bahwalapur (Ahmedpur East) to finalise preparations for the Sub National Immunization Day starting from February 15. The districts showing big drop outs between BCG (first dose) and measles-1 were directed to improve situation. He also said Pakistan is nearing MNT elimination and assessment will be made by international experts in April. He said measles reporting needed serious improvement and districts with large number of High Risk Mobile Groups needed to further improve their registration.
The representative of Dengue Control Programme presented data analysis of different cities and said that areas repeatedly showing cases have to be specifically focused. The unit stressed that doctors trained for dengue be specially employed for dengue unit. The situation of H1N1 was also reviewed.
