Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif has ordered to carry out implementation of Red & Blue Code Emergency System in the hospitals across Punjab within 2 days.
She said this during presiding over a special meeting in which important decisions were made to bring improvement in the primary and secondary healthcare department.
She directed to conduct rehearsal and training of the Red & Blue Code System for the convenience of doctors. A principle decision was taken to establish CM Health Vigilance Squad in the province.
The CM Health Vigilance Squad will visit the hospitals and review implementation of the directives of the Chief Minister. She also directed to provide ventilators for the children and adult patients in every teaching and district hospital across Punjab.
She also reviewed the plan to deploy trained doctors in the districts in a phased manner along with setting up a cath lab in the hospitals. She underscored that the presence of consultants and heart surgeons should be ensured in district hospitals until the completion of Cath Lab project. Heart consultants and surgeons will visit district hospitals twice a week to provide medical services.
She outlined, “I do not want any patient to suffer due to lack of heart treatment facilities.” She directed to ensure appointment of consultants and surgeons in the district hospitals. She also sought a list of specialists required in the district hospitals across Punjab.
She also directed to carry out equipment audit, death audit, lab audit, nursing audit and record audit of hospitals. She directed to ensure regular audit of outsourced services of cleaning and parking facilities in the teaching and district hospitals .
The Chief Minister directed to formulate and display injection SOPs for student nurses in the hospitals. She directed to deploy trained and experienced nurses on duty in the emergency and paediatric wards along with implementing a pager system for communication mode instead of using mobile phones in the hospitals.
The meeting decided to ban the usage of mobile phones by nurses and paramedical staff while remaining on duty in the hospitals.
She directed Secretary Primary and Secondary Healthcare to conduct interviews for the appointment of CEOs and MS in each district. She also directed to ensure the presence and functioning of CT scan and MRI machines in every major hospital in the districts along with activating CCTV camera system in the government hospitals. She also directed to devise a regular monitoring system in the teaching & district hospitals.
It was decided in the meeting that an impartial officer would be appointed in the complaints cell of hospitals.
The Chief Minister directed the complaints cell and CCTV monitoring section to collaborate in their official working.
