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The Punjab Health Department is a government agency of Punjab, Pakistan that delivers preventive healthcare, as well as curative care health care services from the primary health care level to the tertiary care level. [1]
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, and the second-largest by land area. According to the 2017 Census of Pakistan , it had a population of 110 million. [1] In 2017, there were 88 tehsil-level hospitals (THQ), 34 district hospitals (DHQ), and 23 teaching hospitals in Punjab, Pakistan.
Of the total births in Punjab, 38.5% were delivered by caesarean section in 2019–21. This number was 24.6% in 2015–16. For private health facilities, 55.5% of the births were by caesarean section, in 2019–20, compared to 29.9% for public health facilities. In 2015–16, this number was 39.7% for private and 29.9% for public health facilities.
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan was established in 2012 and is the largest department in the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination, with its headquarters in Islamabad and regional offices in the provincial capitals of Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta. DRAP has been established by the Federal Government ...
Khawaja Salman Rafique ( Punjabi: خواجا سلمان رفیق) is a Pakistani politician who was a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from April 2008 to March 2013, from September 2013 to May 2018 and from August 2018 to January 2023. He has served in Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif's cabinet as Minister for Specialised Health ...
The following are some of the hospitals in Lahore : Mayo Hospital. Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute. Services Hospital Lahore. Doctors Hospital. Lahore General Hospital. Jinnah Hospital. Shaikh Zayed Hospital. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre.
The Punjab government granted 50 acres (20 ha) of land for construction of the hospital. The foundation stone for the hospital was laid in 2013 by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh . [4] [5] It was inaugurated on 24 August 2022 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi . [2]
Sargodha Medical College (Urdu: سرگودھا طبی کالج or SMC) is a public sector medical college located in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.. It remained a constituent college of University of Sargodha till 31st December 2021, when the cabinet committee through its executive orders decided that the specialized healthcare and medical education department of the government of the punjab ...