Punjab Health Department will ensure availability of enough and requisite medicine stock in all the civil hospitals and other health service organisations across the State. Besides, to improve the health facilities, the State Government will soon appoint 250 MBBS doctors.
“Punjab Government is doing continues efforts to provide better health facilities to the general public. To ensure timely availability of requisite medicines in civil hospitals and health centres, drug warehouses have been constructed at Bathinda, Attari in Amritsar and Kharar,” said the State Health and Family Welfare Minister Surjit Kumar Jayani, while addressing media after inaugurating Rs1.25 crore Modern Drug Warehouse and laying the foundation stone for Rs13.28 crore Chemical, Food and Drug Testing laboratory at Kharar.
Jayani said that in these drug warehouses, 234 different kinds of medicines could be stored which are being provided free of cost at by Punjab Government at civil hospitals and health centres.
Responding to the queries related to shortage of doctors, nurses and expert technical staff in the State, Jayani said that requisite staff will be ensured in each and every hospital as 250 new MBBS doctors, nurses and technicians are also being appointed very soon.
He added that appointment of specialist doctors will also be conducted very soon. “A new policy in this regard has been prepared which will ensure the availability of requisite expert and technical staff in the State,” he added.