–Improvement of PIC to be a priority
Specialised Healthcare & Medical Education Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah has directed to prepare a comprehensive strategy to strengthen the cardiac units in tertiary care hospitals and more improvements in treatment facilities at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) by reducing the work load.
He was presiding over a meeting, at Civil Secretariat, on Saturday, to review strategies for further improving the conditions at PIC and making the cardiac units better by providing support to them in the form of logistics, human resource and medical equipment.
He directed to constitute a committee headed by PIC Chief Executive Prof Nadeem Hayat Malik and all the heads of cardiac centres and professors of cardiac units of teaching hospitals as members.
The committee would prepare recommendations keeping in view all the aspects of the issue and requirements of the hospitals for their strengthening cardiac units and submit the report to the secretary within three days.
Faisal Masood, Nadeem Hayat Malik, Noor-us-Saba from Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Zubair Akram from Jinnah Hospital, Additional Secretary Technical Dr Salman Shahid and doctors from the Services Hospital attended the meeting.
The meeting also discussed a proposal to set up a filter clinic for the PIC in Services Hospital area adjacent to PIC so that common patients coming with minor complaints, like blood pressure etc, may be treated in the filter clinic and only serious patients should be referred to PIC for further management.
It was decided to constitute a committee immediately for this purpose which would submit its report for evolving a solid and efficient strategy which would be implemented on the fast track to fulfil the requirements of an ever increasing number of cardiac patients in the province.
