Health minister reviews e-health project

The Sindh Health Department will soon be fully computerised under e-government project where after all sections of the department would be inter-linked.

This would thus help check financial and administrative malpractices and establish good governance. This was stated by Singh Health Minister, Dr Saghir Ahmed, in a briefing by the IT Department in which he was briefed about computerization process in the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).

He was informed that this would help maintain the hospital’s complete record including salaries, employees and their leave account, posting, abstentions, entries of patients, record of medicines and supplies besides greatly reliving from paper work and enforcing transparency.

Dr Sather said that enforcement of Civil Hospital Management and Information System would be ensured and officials and staff would be bound down to take maximum advantage of computer use. With the e-system, he observed. It would become possible to provide better and speedy facilities to general public besides transparency in procurement and purchases.