LAHORE, (Millat + APP)-The total health sector development budget
for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education and Primary &
Secondary Health is Rs. 44 billion for the fiscal year 20016-17
as compared to last year’s development budget of Rs. 24 billion.
This was stated by a spokesman of Punjab Health department,
who added that the government enhanced development budget of
health sector by about 43 percent.
He further said that neither the health development budget
was diverted to any project nor it was being transferred to any other development sector,adding that rumors regarding the transfer of health
sector development budget to other projects were totally
baseless.
The spokesman said that on the directives of Chief Minister
Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, teaching hospitals of 500 beds were being
constructed with the medical colleges of Gujranwala,Sialkot,
Sahiwal and Dera Ghazi Khan. He said that Chief Minister
had recently approved purchase of 14 Mobile Health Units for provision of basic health facilities at the doorstep of the people which would cost billions of rupees.