LAHORE, Jan 26 (APP): The total health sector development
budget for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education and Primary
& Secondary Health is Rs.44 billion for the fiscal year 2016-17
as compared to last year’s development budget of Rs.24 billion.
This was stated by a spokesman of the Punjab Health Department,
adding the government had enhanced development budget of
health sector about 43 percent. It further said neither
the health development budget had been diverted to any project
nor was being transferred to any other development sector.
It said the rumors regarding transfer of health
sector development budget to other projects were totally
baseless.
Moreover, as many as 40 DHQ/THQ hospitals were being revamped
during the current year.
The spokesman said on the direction of Chief Minister
Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, 500 beds teaching hospitals were being
constructed with the medical colleges of Gujranwala, Sialkot,
Sahiwal and Dera Ghazi Khan.
It said Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif 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.