Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif formally launched the “Chief Minister’s Youngsters’s Coronary heart Surgical procedure Programme” for the free remedy and surgical procedure of kids with coronary heart illness, throughout her go to to Lahore’s Youngsters’s Hospital Pediatric Cardiac Surgical procedure Ward on Monday.
She additionally distributed “Youngster Surgical procedure Playing cards” among the many deserving sufferers underneath the Programme, in keeping with state media, APP.
”The operation of a sick youngster shall be performed in a non-public hospital if there is no such thing as a place within the authorities hospitals,” she stated after the announcement.
Furthermore, she inspected the ward’s Excessive Dependency Unit (HDU) and different departments of the hospital and reviewed varied services out there within the cardiac surgical procedure ward.
The Punjab CM inquired in regards to the well-being of the younger sufferers, gave them items and performed ludo with them.
She interacted with the youngsters and prayed: ”Could Allah grant you well being, all of us pray for you.”
Moreover, she talked to the dad and mom of the sick kids and requested them in regards to the availability of varied services.
”It’s my mission to free each citizen of Punjab, together with kids, from the system of queues and ready,” she stated, including: ”The variety of specialist surgeons and allied employees shall be elevated to multiply the capability of pediatric coronary heart surgical procedure within the authorities hospitals.”
Moreover, the Punjab CM stated: ”Within the first part, pediatric coronary heart surgical procedure facility is being supplied in 6 authorities and designated non-public hospitals together with PIC (Punjab Institute of Cardiology) and Youngsters’s Hospital Lahore, Multan’s Youngsters’s and PIC, and Faisalabad and Rawalpindi Cardiology Institutes.”
She added: ”Within the second part, services for pediatric coronary heart surgical procedure will even be supplied within the hospitals of Wazirabad, Dera Ghazi Khan, Bahawalpur and Sargodha.” She additionally noticed the dashboard developed to watch the programme.
CM Maryam additionally stated: ”I’m extraordinarily joyful to launch the undertaking as a mom, not because the Chief Minister.”
”I can perceive the shock that moms undergo on the dying of a kid,” she added.
Maryam additionally visited the “play space” for kids with coronary heart ailments within the Youngsters’s Hospital, and reviewed varied services out there for them there.
She stated: ”The supply of recent services for kids’s coronary heart surgical procedure is a honest effort to wipe the tears of moms and take away the ailments of younger kids.”
The hospital authorities knowledgeable the CM that “greater than 5000 younger kids die yearly resulting from a scarcity of well timed coronary heart surgical procedure.”
She stated in Pakistan’s first remedy centre for kids, younger sufferers from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and different provinces would even be handled. “Youngsters affected by coronary heart illness is not going to have to attend for lengthy,” Maryam added.
