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

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The Department runs:[2]

* 2,502 basic health units
* 316 rural health centers
* 88 Tehsil headquarter hospitals
* 36 district headquarter hospitals
* 46 Teaching hospitals/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

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### Directorate General Health Services Punjab

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

### Directorate General of Nursing

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

* Nursing services
* Nursing education

## List of Director Generals

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Rank and Name  | Start of Term  | End of Term

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Dr. Riaz Mustafa Syed  | Jan 1992  | May 1992
Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan  | May 1992  | May 1994
Dr. Habib Ullah  | Jun 1994  | Feb 1995
Dr. Khalid Saifullah  | Feb 1995  | Mar 1997
Dr. Muhammad Anwar Khan  | Mar 1997  | May 1997
Dr. Muhammad Afzal Hashmi  | May 1997  | Dec 1998
Dr. Karam Hussain Sheikh  | Jan 1999  | Jun 1999
Dr. Tahir Pervaiz Meer  | Jun 1999  | Dec 1999
Dr. Khursheed Ahmad  | Jan 2000  | Jun 2000
Dr. Saeed Ahmad Qureshi  | Aug 2000  | May 2001
Dr. Muhammad Yaqoob Jaffar  | Jun 2001  | Jun 2002
Dr. Sabeeha Khursheed  | Jun 2002  | Jun 2003
Dr. Khalid Mehmood Tikka  | Jun 2003  | Sep 2005
Dr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhary  | Oct 2005  | Jan 2012
Dr. Nisar Ahmed Cheema | Feb 2012  | Mar 2013
Dr. Tanvir Ahmed  | Apr 2013  | Oct 2013
Dr. Zafar Ikram  | Oct 2013  | Dec 2013
Dr. Zahid Pervaiz  | Dec 2013  | Dec 2015
Dr. Mukhtar Hussain Syed  | Jan 2016  | Feb 2017
Dr. Faisal Zahoor  | Feb 2017  | Nov 2017
Dr. Akhter Rasheed  | Nov 2017  | Mar 2018
Dr. Munir Ahmed  | Mar 2018  | April 2019
Dr. Haroon Jahangir Khan  | May 2019  | November 2022
Dr. Muhammad Ilyas Gondal  | November 2022  | present

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### Internal Audit Wing

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### Punjab Health Foundation

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The Foundation assists and promotes the private sector in providing better grassroots health care.[6]

## Attached Institutions

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### The Children's Hospital and Institute of Child Health

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Main article: The Children's Hospital, Lahore

### Punjab Pharmacy Council

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The Punjab Pharmacy Council regulates the practice of pharmacy.[7]

### Provincial Quality Control Board

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The Provincial Quality Control Board was established under the Drugs Act of 1976, to ensure the availability of quality drugs for the general public.[8]

## Autonomous Institutions

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Under the Punjab Medical and Health Institutions Act of 2003, the medical colleges and teaching hospitals have been declared autonomous bodies.[9]

## See also

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

## References

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1. ^ Overview | Health Department Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
2. ^ Health Services | Health Department Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
3. ^ Directorate General Health Services Punjab | Health Department Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ Directorate General of Nursing | Health Department Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
5. ^ "Our DGS | DGHS".
6. ^ Overview | Punjab Health Foundation Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^ About PPC Lahore – Objective
8. ^ Provincial Quality Control Board (PQCB) | Health Department Archived 2014-07-29 at the Wayback Machine
9. ^ Affiliated Organizations | Health Department

## External links

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