Punjab Labour Minister Haji Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi has said that the Labour Department will spend Rs 4.1 billion for providing modern healthcare facilities to labourers and their families. He said Rs 440 million would be utilized to purchase medical equipment for social security hospitals. He said the government had reserved Rs 42.30 billion for the provision of health facilities to people in the province.
Talking to delegations of doctors, paramedics and labourers, he said the programmes launched for maternal and neonatal healthcare would ensure progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in maternal and infant health whereas specific objectives of the programmes were to reduce the under five mortality rate to less than 65 per thousand live births by this year.
