Chief Minister Punjab Sardar Usman Buzdar visited the DHQ Hospital Rajanpur on Thursday to review facilities arranged for the coronavirus patients. He directed to ensure better treatment of patients adding that quality healthcare facilities will be ensured in Rajanpur district. The shortage of doctors and paramedics will be overcome soon and consultant doctors will also be appointed in this hospital. He told that DHQ Hospital Rajanpur will be upgraded and Rural Health Centres of Fazalpur, Kot Mithan and Dajal will be upgraded as THQ hospitals. He announced that an eye ward will be set up in Rojhan Hospital and gynae wards will be established in Jampur and Rojhan hospitals. Public Health Emergency is imposed and different steps are taken to save the citizens from coronavirus, he stated. Usman Buzdar maintained that health advisory is being strictly implemented for safety from coronavirus. He pointed out that Punjab has taken the lead by implementing Punjab Infectious Diseases Prevention & Control Ordinance, 2020 and permission has been granted to hire the services of ten thousand doctors and paramedics. He said that a maximum number of tests of coronavirus patients are conducted in Punjab and this facility will be increased to ten thousand tests daily in the next few days. The CM expressed the satisfaction that a thousand-bed field hospital is set up at Expo Centre Lahore adding that he is visiting different districts to personally monitor the medical facilities. The CM was told that five isolation wards have been set up for coronavirus patients and more than 93 thousand people of different provinces have also been screened in Rajanpur Hospital.
