ISLAMABAD: Health Minister Aamir Mehmood Kiani Monday laid the foundation stone of Mother and Child Hospital at Bhara Kahu in Islamabad, Radio Pakistan reported.
Speaking on the occasion, Kiani said the hospital will be a forty bed state of the art Hospital in the federal capital and will be completed by December this year.
“The federal government is committed to transform Islamabad into a model health city”, he continued.
The minister regretted that the health sector was neglected in the past but the present government is taking steps to bring improvement in it.
Aamir Mehmood Kiani said that steps are also afoot to check the population growth.
Last month, Mr Aamir Mehmood Kiani had announced that the government would establish one nursing university and four big hospitals in Islamabad.
“The nursing university will be built at the cost of Rs10 billion. The number of lady health workers will be increased to 600 in the federal capital,” he said.
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On the instruction of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHSR&C) has recently launched ‘first ever’ health strategy of Islamabad, said a press release.
He said that a comprehensive primary health care system will be developed for the district to ensure timely availability of health services at the doorstep of communities, including recruitment of 600 more LHWs for the country.
