With a view to reduce the rush of patients and workload on the teaching hospitals and to provide better healthcare facilities to the people for common and minor diseases at local level, the dispensaries and small hospitals run by City District Government are being attached with the teaching hospitals under referral system. In first phase Wahdat Colony dispensary and Samnabad Hospital is being attached with Jinnah Hospital immediately. These filter clinics would refer serious patients to the concerned attached teaching hospital.
It was decided in a meeting, chaired by Secretary Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education, Najam Ahmed Shah at Civil Secretariat, here today. Additional Secretary Health Development Azhar Abbas Malik, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College / Jinnah Hospital Prof. Mahmood Shaukat, EDO Health Lahore Dr. Zulfiqar Ali, District Officer Health Dr. Muhammad Saeed, officers of Primary & Secondary Health Department attended the meeting. Secretary Specialized Healthcare Najam Ahmed Shah has said that referral system is being evolved in the province for further improving the Healthcare system. He further said that this initiative would provide better health facilities to the patients and reduce bed occupancy rate in the hospitals. He said that the other teaching hospitals of Lahore would also be attached with the CDGL dispensaries and small hospitals so that treatment facilities of common diseases could be provided to the people in their local area. Najam Ahmed Shah directed that a complete roadmap should immediately be prepared as to which dispensary / filter clinic could be attached with which teaching hospital. He further directed that every teaching hospital should also design its logo which should be displayed on the dispensaries / clinics attached to that particular teaching hospital. Secretary Health further said that in first phase referral system is being introduced in Lahore under which other dispensaries and clinics would also be attached with the teaching hospitals and after that this scheme would be expanded to other cities. Provision of quality healthcare services to the people is the basic motto of all the reforms in health sector, he added.