LAHORE: “Due to rising number of cases, the facilities reserved for Covid-19 are being increased and the number of ventilators and beds are being enhanced, says Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid here on Saturday.
Addressing a meeting to review arrangements to treat the patients in Punjab’s hospitals at the Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, she said that like the first and second wave, “we will prevail in the third wave as well.”
All healthcare workers must serve patients with dedication. Except exams, other academic activities must be stopped immediately and online classes may continue.
All required resources for the patients must be provided. The vaccination of people over 60 years of age will continue and the testing capacities shall be scaled up. The number of beds has been increased in High Dependency Units and Isolation wards.
Facilities to treat COVID patients being increased: Dr Yasmin
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Dr Yasmin calls for local family planning strategies
Lahore
March 3, 2021
LAHORE:Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid urged stakeholders to work in synergy to achieve Mother and Child health and family planning targets in a meeting with World Health Organisation and Unicef delegation at the Committee Room of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department here on Tuesday.
Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Usman Younis, Secretary Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department Barrister Nabeel Awan, Secretary Population Welfare Ali Bahadur Qazi, CFO Unicef Punjab Wilbroadd Ngambi, Dr Akhtar Rashid, Dr Yahya Gulzar, Dr Ghulam Nabi Qazi, Dr Khalid Mehmood, Dr Faraz Khalid, Dr Naveed and others were present in the meeting. The minister discussed with the delegation the measures taken in the province to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, family planning and mother and child health indicators. She shared with the delegation the special measures on fami
This file photo shows Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid. DawnNewsTV/File
LAHORE: The selection of the daughter of Punjab health minister allegedly against a newly created post at the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) has drawn criticism from various quarters, who are calling it favouritism.
The issue came to the fore when some young doctors protesting against the Punjab government’s decision to bring the Mayo Hospital under the Medical Teaching Institutions Act uploaded the notification of the appointment in question on social media some 40 days after the decision.
While criticising the act, the protesters claimed that Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid’s daughter, Dr Ayesha Ali, was “accommodated” in the institution by creating a new department only to please the minister. They further said that she was selected as a regular employee rather than on contract.