Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has directed to ensure delivery of medicines to patients at their doorsteps as soon as possible.

Chairing a meeting on Health related projects and reforms in Lahore today, she directed to ensure the prompt operationalization of the field hospitals and clinics-on wheel project.

The Chief Minister ordered strict legal action against corrupt mafias in government hospitals.

She gave orders for the construction, repair, and upgrading of all rural health centers, as well as the upgradation of over two thousand Basic Health Units and three hundred Rural Health Centres throughout the province this year.

It was also decided to build Muhammad Nawaz Sharif Institute of Cardiology Sargodha on land adjacent to DHQ hospital.

Source: Radio Pakistan