LAHORE: Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education (SH&ME) Secretary Najam Ahmad Shah has directed Heads of all the teaching hospitals and specialised healthcare institutions to immediately provide list of all unregistered Life Saving Drugs (LSD) so that the federal government and Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) could be approached for the registration of these medicines.
Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique is expected to meet the federal health minister and DRAP chairman in Islamabad on Tuesday.
SH&ME secretary further stated that in a high-level meeting presided over by the SH&ME Minister Khwaja Salman Rafique the budget utilisation of hospitals, procurement and availability of medicine, online inventory system of medicine, maintenance and cleanliness system, hospital complaints management system and the availability of ventilators was discussed in detail.
During the meeting, SH&ME secretary on the proposal of King Edward Medical University’s Professor Dr Ibrar Ashraf constituted a technical committee consisting on the professors of surgery, medicine and anaesthesia to furnish its recommendations for the rational use of ICU beds and ventilators.
Additional Secretary Development would also be the member of this committee, he added. Najam Ahmad Shah also directed that the high officials of Drug Testing Laboratories (DTL) also be approached for obtaining analysis reports of the medicines from the DTLs on urgent basis.
The meeting also assessed the ratio of redressal of the complaints received through Hospital Complaints Management System in the hospitals.
Secretary Specialized Healthcare further directed that a three-member monitoring committee should be constituted in each hospital to monitor the performance of Complaints Management System.
The meeting was further informed that 279 ventilators are being purchased for teaching hospitals. The IT cell presented a report regarding the performance of each hospital in the meeting separately.
