Earlier, Faiz Kakar met the Punjab Chief Minister Dr Hasan Askari and expressed keen interest in the digitization of Punjab's health sector and sought help to improve the various functioning of the health sector in Balochistan.
Dr Umar Saif briefed the visiting Minister regarding PITB's Information Communication Technology (ICT) based initiatives that have revolutionized the health landscape in the Punjab, focusing on HIMS and e-Vaccs Programs that were also replicated in KP. PITB would assist in automating hospitals in Balochistan using Punjab's HIMS and would further extend support for vaccination monitoring, which has already resulted in improving vaccinator attendance in Balochistan from 23 percent to 61 percent in 10 months, he added.
Giving an overview of e-Vaccs project Dr Saif informed that in Balochistan 377 vaccinators have already registered 17,772 new children through apps provided by PITB while total vaccines administered in Balochistan were 183,675. In the Punjab the 3,799 vaccinators administered 47,723,144 vaccines and registered 6,782,949 children while the coverage area in the Punjab stood at 97 percent, Balochistan 58 percent and Khyber Pakhtunkhua 73 percent, he stated.