Clinics on Wheels project launched for Punjab

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif inaugurated Clinics on Wheels Project in Lahore on Friday.

Under the project, 200 clinics on wheels will provide health facility to four million people of the province.

Addressing the ceremony, the Chief Minister said these clinics will be deployed in densely populated areas of big cities where residents often face challenges in accessing hospital care.

Maryam Nawaz said that in the last five years, Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif did the right things, which were reversed.

Maryam Nawaz said that when she went to deliver free medicine, the satisfaction and happiness on the faces of the patients cannot be described. “I am happy that health facility is being taken to the doorstep of people”, said Maryam Nawaz.

She said that it is not just a vehicle but a whole clinic which will be parked at the doorstep of the people, Maryam Nawaz added.

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She further said the provincial government is taking health facilities to the doorsteps of the people.

The CM said that the ‘Clinic on Wheels program was started so that the poor did not have to go to the hospital for minor ailments.

She said people are so busy in earning bread for their children that they cannot take time for their health.

“Kudos to Shehbaz Sharif for starting the Clinic on Wheels programme,” she added.

Shahbaz Sharif, you will be happy to know that your daughter has added 200 Clinics on Wheels to this program, Maryam Nawaz said.

Clinic on Wheels will have one doctor, one LHV and one dispenser, free of cost medical tests, free medicines and screening facilities, Maryam Nawaz Sharif said.

Clinic on Wheels will have vaccination and antenatal care facilities, malaria, diabetes and pediatric treatment facilities, Maryam Nawaz Sharif added.

She said that Clinics on Wheels will be located around cities in areas where health facilities are not available and people have to travel far.

Six days a week from nine in the morning to three in the morning, the Clinic on Wheels will provide treatment on people’s doorsteps, Maryam Nawaz said.

Maryam Nawaz also announced to provide state of the art cardiology facilities in eight cities of Punjab including Mianwali, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Jhelum, Sahiwal, Murree and Layyah