Reiterating its commitment to provide better health facilities to rural people, Punjab Rural Development and Panchayat Minister Sikandar Singh Maluka on Thursday empowered the Block Development and Panchayat Officers (BDPOs) to monitor rural doctors at least once in week.
He said any negligence towards duty would not be tolerated and those who found guilty will be treated according to law. Maluka added his department is committed to provide infrastructure for dispensaries and hospital in rural areas so that rural people don’t have to rush for city hospitals. “Doctors should
co-operate with department accomplish mission ‘Healthy Punjab’,” he added. The Minister reveled that 60 per cent of people live in rural areas “so it is the responsibility of government to take care of their health and provide basic health facilities at grass root level, and Punjab Government is regularly taking measures in this direction.”