LAHORE: On Wednesday, Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz inaugurated the Punjab Community Health Inspectors Programme, which is the first initiative of its kind in Punjab.
The initiative aims to provide health care services across the board to every household and, at the same time, to facilitate the timely diagnosis of diseases. The event took place at the Punjab Hockey Stadium, and 55,000 community health inspectors from all over the province were present at the ceremony.
The chief minister made a tour of the stadium track, greeted the inspectors from all the districts, and responded to the slogans with hand waves. Maryam Nawaz remarked, “Punjab is invincible if mothers, sisters, and daughters go underground.
The daughters of Punjab will take the province’s fate in their hands.” The lady said that 25,000 community health inspectors were going to work in the community, home by home, disease by disease, and offering medical treatment.
The Chief Minister remarked that the government would no longer be dependent on illness coming to the hospitals; instead, it would go door-to-door providing preventive guidance and diagnostic facilities.
She added that community health inspectors would be able to check blood sugar, carry out basic diagnostic tests, and give injections, while every household would have a digital health profile created of its own.
She announced that the programme had given jobs to 25,000 people and each community health inspector will be paid Rs 50,000 as a monthly salary, which will be hiked on a performance basis.
While calling community health inspectors a “mission,” she asserted that this is no ordinary job but very spirit of service. She stated that the nation’s daughters would be stepping into the households to assist the public and that it is everyone’s duty to treat them with respect.
The ceremony was livened up with fireworks, the inspectors marched past with band music, and the mobile phone lights were turned on to welcome the guests during the celebrations.
