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Shehnaz Sheikh meets with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
(Media Release to
Sada-e-Watan Sydney through DG Information)
Prime Minister of Pakistan
Shaukat Aziz has said that the government is committed to achieve the millennium
development goals and more funds will be allocated to bring further improvement
in the health care of the people. The Prime Minister was talking to Begum
Shehnaz Sheikh, Minister of State for Health, who called on him in Islamabad.
The Prime Minister of Pakistan said that the government is working to control
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, and Malaria and bring improvement in mother and child
health care in the country. He said that the government is taking both
preventive and curative steps to have an effective control on such diseases
while mass awareness campaign is also being launched. The Prime Minister Shaukat
Aziz emphasized the need for providing better training and skills to the nursing
staff which will help in providing better health care.
Minister of State for Health, Begum Shehnaz Sheikh updated the Prime Minister
about the ongoing projects to control the diseases like Hepatitis, AIDS, Malaria
and ensuring better health care to the mother and child. She said that the
government has also increased the pay scale of nurses from 14 to 16. Shehnaz
Sheikh said to provide better mother child health care the number of LHVs is
also being increased from 70,000 to 100,000. She said that the government is
focusing to reach all corners of the country to improve the health condition of
the people.
Begum Shehnaz Sheikh thanked the Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for the support
extended to the Ministry of Health and said the additional funds provided by the
government will further help to achieve the millennium development goals.
