Nine central warehouses set up with stocks worth billions of rupees
LAHORE:
During a visit to the Central Medicine Warehouse at Maraka, the country’s largest facility, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif inaugurated free medicines to several districts.
She ordered the functionalisation of medicine warehouses in Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, and Multan at the earliest.
CM Maryam Nawaz supervised the loading and unloading of trucks carrying medicines to be distributed to different districts. She also checked furniture, medical equipment, and other goods to be provided to the hospitals. She also checked the medicines’ expiration dates and temperature systems.
Punjab Secretary of Health Ali Jan Khan briefed the CM on the possibility of storing the medicines at a standard temperature and moving them from warehouses.
Official statement According to an official statement, nine central warehouses have been established under the free medicines project. More than Rs10 billion worth of medicines have been stored in the warehouses. Modern medical equipment worth over Rs7 billion for revamping hospitals, along with furniture, disposable bed sheets and other goods will also be provided from the warehouses.
Standard furniture, latest medical equipment, medicine trollies and other items will be provided to the district hospitals from the warehouses across the province.
Meanwhile, the establishment of Punjab Enforcement and Regulatory Authority (PERA) offices, appointments, rules and regulations were approved in the maiden meeting of the organisation presided over by Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif.
The chief minister asked for transparency and merit in the appointments and the development of an effective monitoring system.
