A meeting was held under the chairmanship of IG Punjab regarding establishment of Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals.
Complete the plan for setting up Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan as soon as possible.
Designed as a police welfare project, these hospitals will be accessible to police personnel as well as ordinary citizens. IG Punjab.
Inspector General of Police Punjab Inam Ghani said that the best welfare of the police force especially junior rank employees and easy provision of all possible facilities to them is one of my top priorities therefore for the establishment of Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals for providing medical treatment facilities to officers and personnel, the devised plan should be completed as soon as possible. He further said that in the first phase, suitable sites for construction of Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals in major cities like Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan should be identified and in the first phase of planning, the designated area for hospitals should be identified and in case of non-availability of pertinent sites then other alternative sites should be identified. He further said that the construction work of hospitals should be completed preferably with police welfare funds while in case of shortage of funds a request should be made to the government. He further said that in such state of the art hospitals, provision of facilities, testing laboratories and other equipments should be ensured while employees of Punjab police along with ordinary people will take benefit with functioning of such state of the art hospital of Police Welfare Project. He further said that the provision of health facilities would alleviate the medical problems faced by the force and their families and they would be able to go beyond unnecessary hassles and focus on protection of life and property of the people and discharge of professional duties. He expressed these views while presiding over a meeting on construction of Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals at the Central Police Office here today. During the meeting, issues related to identification of places and resources required for setting up of Police Welfare Hospitals were reviewed.
During the meeting, CCPO Lahore Ghulam Mehmood Dogar and RPO Rawalpindi Imran Ahmar while briefing on the proposed master plan of Punjab Police Welfare Hospitals said that establishment of welfare hospitals for providing medical facilities to police personnel is a matter of urgency. The establishment will greatly improve the process of providing medical facilities to police personnel. He further said that all the requirements, resources and other related aspects are being considered in detail under a comprehensive strategy to make these hospitals functional, on which IG Punjab directed that final planning report on construction of hospitals should be fully prepared and put it on next session after one week. Additional IG South Punjab Capt (retd) Zafar Iqbal, CCPO Lahore Ghulam Mahmood Dogar, RPO Rawalpindi Imran Ahmar and RPO Multan Syed Khurram Ali were present on the occasion. Additional IG Establishment and Welfare Azhar Hameed Khokhar, Additional IG Operations Sahibzada Shehzad Sultan, DIG Welfare Agha Mohammad Yousuf, AIG Finance Ghazi Salahuddin and AIG Development Captain (Retd) Mohammad Ali Zia and other officers were present present on the occasion.
(Handout No.48)
Nayab Haider
Director Public Relations
Punjab Police
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