Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif orders revision of healthcare in Islamabad

• The prime minister asks the Ministry of Health to accelerate work in the medical complex.
• It also directs to start the process of the map for the university.
• Recruitment process for the works of the Jinnah medical complex.

Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the Ministry of National Health Services to modernize healthcare institutions in the context of the federal government’s competence and to make Islamabad a model in the health care facilities for the whole country.

The prime minister, chairing a meeting on the revision of positions on the Ministry of National Health Service Regulations and the coordination of Islamabad, said the government has prioritized to ensure access to health care facilities across the country, a press release said. Pm.

He asked the Ministry of Health to speed up the work on the medical complex and the Jinnah research center and to launch the default process for the timely supply of the medical and surgical machinery of the installation.

“The default process should be completed under the supervision of an expert consultant, in addition to conducting a third party control of construction and the supply of machinery and equipment,” he said.

Prime Minister Shehbaz also appealed to launch the process of approving the university map associated with the Jinnah medical complex.

During the information on healthcare facilities in Islamabad, it was said that the Jinnah medical complex had been established as a company in accordance with Article 42 of the Law on Companies. The relevant Managing Committee approved the General Plan for the Jinnah Medical Complex.

The meeting was informed that the recruitment process for the project management unit and the Jinnah medical complex unit has begun.

The meeting was attended by Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal, Minister of Finance Ahad Khan Cheema, Minister of Justice and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar, Prime Minister’s Coordinator for National Health Dr Malik Mukhtar Ahmed and other relevant government officials.

The pioneering ceremony of the medical complex was attended by PM Shehbaz in July 2024.

According to the Ministry of Intelligence, which extends to about 800 kanals of land, the Medical Center will consist of modern art facilities, including treatment for the most complex diseases of the lungs, hearts, kidneys and cancer.

The prime minister said he would not be just a state of medical technology across the area and not only serve the medical needs of Rawalpindi’s Twin City people and Islamabad, as well as Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir and elsewhere.

He said that the Jinnah medical complex would consist of modern laboratories and nurses, where our medical staff will also participate in advanced training and research.

The prime minister said poor people would get free treatment at the Jinnah medical complex.