Security arrangements of medical colleges and teaching hospitals will be outsourced and only one attendant with a patient will be allowed in the hospital wards. Security audit will also be conducted in government hospitals.
This was decided in a meeting presided over by Secretary Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Department Najam Ahmed Shah, today. Advisor Health Kh. Salman Rafique especially attended the meeting. Additional Inspector General (AIG) Operation Waqar Abbasi, Additional Secretary (Admin) Ijaz-ul-Haq, Vice Chancellor Fatima Jinnah Medical University/Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Prof. Fakhar Imam, Principal PGMI/LGH Prof. Khalid Mehmood, Medical Director Children Hospital Prof. Ahsan Waheed Rathore, Additional Medical Superintendent Services Hospital Dr. Muhammad Ashraf, MS Jinnah Hospital Dr. Shafqat, MS Government Shahdara Teaching Hospital Dr. Khalid Shah, MS LGH Dr. (Capt.) Muhammad Niaz, MS Said Mitha Hospital Dr. Haq Nawaz Bharwana, MS Lady Aitcheson Hospital Dr. Samina, MS Lady Wallingdon Hospital Dr. Zafar Yousaf, MS Government Nawaz Sharif Yakki Gate Hospital Dr. Asim Hameed, Dean IPH Prof. Moaz Ahmed, Chief Executive PIC Prof. Nadeem Hayat Malik, MS Dr. Sohail Saqlain and other officers attended the meeting. Secretary Health Najam Ahmed Shah directed that the services of security agencies of good repute from private sector should be acquired for the security of hospitals and smart and alert security guards should be deployed in the hospitals. Najam Ahmed Shah said that sitting arrangements for the attendants of the patients should be made in the hospitals and people should be convinced that more persons with a patient not only create security problems in the hospitals but also increase workload on doctors. He directed that security equipments including CCTV cameras should be functional in all hospitals. He further directed that the duty roaster of the officials posted at police post in the hospitals should be provided to the MS of concerned hospital so that a better coordination could be made between hospital administration and the police.
Advisor on Health Kh. Salman Rafique directed that banners should be displayed for the awareness and guidance of the people coming with the patients in hospital so that public cooperation could also be sought for one attendant policy with a patient in the ward and security arrangements which is very essential. Secretary Health said that government hospitals and medical colleges should be stood at their own feet for security purposes and have to made security arrangements at their own. He said that police will be available for the support of security arrangements.