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LAHORE: An important meeting was held under the chairmanship of Provincial Health Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique in which a detailed review of the Chief Minister’s Children’s Heart Surgery Program, Chief Minister’s Dialysis Program and Chief Minister’s Special Initiative for Transplant Program was taken. Dr Adnan Khan and Chairman Punjab Chief Minister’s Advisory Committee for Cardiology Dr Farqad Alamgir attended the meeting. Vice Chancellor University of Child Health Sciences Professor Masood Sadiq, CEO Punjab Health Initiative Management Company Dr Ali Razaq, Executive Director Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore Professor Bilal Mohiuddin, Executive Director Multan Institute of Cardiology Professor Hamid Saeed, Executive Director Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology and MS Wazirabad Institute of Cardiology Dr. Faisal and other officers attended the meeting. Khawaja Salman Rafique was briefed during the meeting about the monitoring framework of the three health projects, service delivery and steps taken for the convenience of patients. Public feedback regarding the three new and unique health projects was also reviewed during the meeting. He stressed the importance of ensuring transparency in the three flagship programs, improving the quality of service and ensuring the best monitoring for the convenience of patients. He said that maximum facilities should be provided to patients in the empanelled hospitals. Concerned authorities have been directed to resolve the problems faced by the patients on priority basis in empanelled hospitals, he said. Under the Chief Minister’s Children’s Heart Surgery Program, more than 8,000 -children have been given free of cost heart surgeries across the province at a cost of billions of rupees. Under the Chief Minister’s Children’s Heart Surgery Program, hundreds of children from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 192 from Azad Kashmir, 85 from Islamabad, 25 from Balochistan, 23 from Gilgit-Baltistan and 17 from Sindh have been completely free of cost cardiac surgeries in Punjab. Under the Chief Minister’s Special Initiative for Transplant Program, 432 renal transplants, 216 cochlear, 139 liver, 16 bone marrow and 5 corneal transplants have been done completely free of cost. Under the Chief Minister’s Dialysis Program, more than 9.5 Lakh patients have been completely free of cost dialysis in 211 hospitals. More than 28,000 patients have been registered in hospitals for dialysis under the Chief Minister’s Dialysis Program so far. All resources are being utilized to provide the best health facilities to the people of Punjab. Copyright Business Recorder, 2025
