DC directs health official to provide best facilities

Hafiz Muhammad Aziz-ur-Rehman

HAFIZABAD: Deputy Commissioner Saleha Saeed has stressed upon the doctors and paramedical staff in the District Headquarter Hospital Hafizabad to be courteous towards the patients and ensure best possible medical treatment.

Addressing the physicians, surgeons and paramedical staff after making surprise visit to the DHQ Hospital Hafizabad today, she said that that the newly-constructed emergency ward may be made functional on modern lines and ensure privacy to the female patients.

DC said that although the staff of the hospital was performing its duty yet stressed the need for further improvement. She also said that she would not tolerate unnecessary local purchase of medicines in the presence of medicines in the store and also to utilize the equipments lying packed in crotons.

She ordered special audit of the amount so far spent in this respect. She reprimanded over lack of heaters in the Nursery Ward and ordered that heaters should be made functional in Operation Theater, labor room, children ward and nursery to save them from vagary of cold weather.

She directed the Medical Superintendent Dr. Rehan Azhar to prepare comprehensive strategy to convert the hospital into a model hospital and ensure all possible medical services to the patients particularly ensure due respect to the female patients.