Armed Forces Medical Services & Punjab Healthcare Commission To Collaborate To Improve Healthcare Service Delivery

The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) and Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) will cooperate and collaborate in certain areas for improving healthcare service delivery in their respective spheres.

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 22nd Mar, 2018 ) :The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) and Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) will cooperate and collaborate in certain areas for improving healthcare service delivery in their respective spheres.

This was resolved at the first meeting of a joint consultative forum which was held here at the Commission's office. The forum comprised Brig Shazia Sarwar Ali, Brig Hamid Jamal Siddiqui and Lt Col Malik Muhammad Ilyas from the AFMS while the PHC members were Director Clinical Governance and Organisational Standards Dr Mushtaq Ahmed Salariya, Director Licensing and Accreditation Dr Muhammad Anwar Janjua, Additional Director (Complaints) Brig (retd) Dr Shahid Mahmood, Additional Director (Inspections) Lt Col (retd) Dr Muhammad Saleem Khokhar and Additional Director (Quality Assurance) Dr Qamar Salman.

Earlier, the members met Chief Operating Officer PHC Dr Muhammad Ajmal Khan. Both sides agreed to share standards and experiences in clinical governance, development of the minimum service delivery standard for the Primary healthcare establishments of the Army, bilateral visits of healthcare facilities and centres of excellence to witness the on-ground implementation of quality assurance regimes,training of health managers and practitioners, collaboration in research, sharing of data, holding of interactive workshops and regular orientation sessions for trainees courses of the Armed Forces Post Graduate Medical Institutes (AFPGMI).