Punjab Health Department

The Punjab Health Department is a government agency of Punjab, Pakistan that delivers preventive healthcare, as well as curative care health care services from the primary health care level to the tertiary care level.^[1]

Statistics

The Department runs:^[2]

• 2,461 basic health units
• 293 rural health centers
• 88 Tehsil headquarter hospitals
• 34 district headquarter hospitals
• 23 teaching/tertiary care hospitals
• Pakistan is number 8 out of the 22 most disease burdened countries in the world.
• TB is most common in Pakistan.

Departments

Directorate General Health Services Punjab

The Directorate is responsible for overseeing the provision of primary and secondary health care services throughout the province.^[3]

Directorate General of Nursing

The functions of the Directorate General of Nursing are: ^[4]

• Nursing services
• Nursing education

Punjab Health Foundation

The Foundation assists and promotes the private sector in providing better grassroots health care.^[5]

Attached Institutions

The Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health

Punjab Pharmacy Council

The Punjab Pharmacy Council regulates the practice of pharmacy.^[6]

Provincial Quality Control Board

The Provincial Quality Control Board was established under the Drugs Act of 1976, to ensure the availability of quality drugs for the general public.^[7]

Autonomous Institutions

Under the Punjab Medical and Health Institutions Act of 2003, the medical colleges and teaching hospitals have been declared autonomous bodies.^[8]

See also

• Ministry of National Health Services Regulation and Coordination
• Health care in Pakistan
• Ministry of Public Health (Sindh)
• Ministry of Health Balochistan

External links

• Health Department

References