Mobile Health Units (MHUs) have played an effective role in providing quality healthcare services to the people of remote areas of Punjab and is a unique gift of Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif.
Punjab Primary and Secondary Healthcare Minister, Khawaja Imran Nazir expressed these views while presiding over a meeting to review the performance of the MHUs.
Besides, Primary and Secondary (Health) Secretary Ali Jan Khan, Health DG Dr Mukhtar Husain Syed, Additional Secretary (Technical) Dr Asim Altaf, Medi Urge MD Ch Manzoor Ahmed, Dr Shamshad Qureshi and others attended the meeting.
It was informed that presently six MHUs are providing medical treatment and diagnostic facilities to the people of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur and Mianwali districts. These MHUs are equipped with Laboratory, X-ray, Ultrasound, ECG and gyno tests facilities.
The minister said that the chief minister has introduced this scheme six years back and this proved a very successful model and these MHUs don’t only provided medical treatment to the people in routine but are also very helpful in providing medical treatment in natural calamities and, MHUs had been sent to Bannu District, KPK to provide health facilities to the IDPs.
The minister further said that the government is committed to providing quality healthcare services to the people of Punjab and more MHUs would be provided to other districts very soon.
He said that billions of rupees are being spent to ensure quality healthcare services and minimum service delivery standards should be made at all cost.