RAWALPINDI:
Authorities have determined to outsource the Fundamental Well being Items (BHUs) and Rural Well being Centres (RHCs) in all 37 districts of Punjab, together with the Rawalpindi district, below the standing of Maryam Nawaz Well being Clinics (MNHC), retain present common employees of those centres at different authorities hospitals, regularise non-regular employees, and terminate the employment of employees engaged on particular well being initiatives as soon as the initiatives are accomplished.
A gathering of the Chief Govt Officers (CEOs) of all District Well being Authorities (DHAs) throughout the province, chaired by the Secretary of Major and Secondary Healthcare Division Punjab, determined that the outsourcing course of for BHUs and RHCs below every DHA would proceed.
These centres might be outsourced based mostly on upgraded healthcare services and designated as MNHCs. The centres which might be being revamped can have their common employees retained, and they are going to be deployed at different authorities hospitals upon the recruitment of latest employees.
The method of regularising the employment of non-regular employees will proceed. Furthermore, the employment of these employed for particular well being initiatives might be terminated upon the completion of the respective initiatives.
Dr Asif Arbab Niazi, the Chief Govt Officer (CEO) of Rawalpindi DHA, says that within the first section, seven BHUs and RHCs within the Rawalpindi district have already been outsourced and designated as MNHCs, whereas within the second section, 20 extra BHUs might be outsourced and upgraded to the standing of MNHCs.
Earlier than outsourcing, the constructing of every BHU and RHC will bear revamping. After the primary and second phases, 27 extra centres might be transformed into MNHCs, he added.
Within the third section, the remaining 71 well being centres will bear revamping, and these, too, might be outsourced and designated as MNHCs. Consequently, 98 Maryam Nawaz Well being Clinics throughout the district will present free and high quality healthcare companies to the general public.
The administration managing MNHCs, together with the monetary and operational methods, will submit their claims for prices to the Punjab authorities in alternate for offering free healthcare companies.
Dr Niazi additional defined that with the institution of 98 MNHCs throughout the district, individuals will not want to go to bigger hospitals within the cities for remedy.