Snapshot: Punjab’s Health Reforms
The Punjab Health Reforms Roadmap was instituted in Apr 2014, to urge a peculiarity of medical comforts in Pakistan’s many populous province, Punjab.
In a final 3 years, a Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif, has quarterly reviewed a swell in a ongoing plan by holding high-level meetings that are attended by a provincial cabinet, bureaucrats, general donors and a media.
Here are some of a takeaways from a new analysis hold in Lahore:
Vaccine Immunization
• The commission of entirely immunised children, between a ages 12-23 months, increasing to 82 percent in 2016 from 49 percent in 2014. (The information for this year is still being finalised).
• A new vaccine for Rotavirus, a serious infection that can lead to diarrhea and queasiness among infants and immature children, is now accessible in 36 districts of Punjab.
• By 2018, a provincial supervision aims to supplement a Diphtheria/Polio/Tetanus and measles upholder shot to a immunization program.
• South Punjab’s DG Khan and Rajanpur are a many heavy districts, with a lowest immunization coverage.
Maternity care
• The commission of learned birth rate attendance, that includes midwives, nurses and health professionals, has purebred an uptick from 68 percent in 2014 to 78 percent in 2016.
• Maternal ambulance use use has grown from transporting 4,900 cases during a pregnancy in Jun 2017 to 24,500 cases in Sep 2017.
Medical Officers
• Over 88 percent vacancies during Punjab’s Basic Health Units of medical officers were filled by Sep 2017.
• This year, officials interviewed over 7,000 patients during BHUs and supervision facilities, each month, to accumulate exit surveys per studious caring and patron satisfaction.
Family Planning
Family Planning stays a cryptic zone for a Punjab Government. Officials acknowledge that a contraception superiority rate has not shown most swell in a final 3 years. 8 percent of a people in a range use normal methods of contraception, that includes abstinence. While, usually 31 percent use complicated methods, such as condoms and puncture contraception. And 61 percent do not use any contraception during all.
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