WHAT WE DO
Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) delivers quality healthcare services to the community through an efficient and effective service delivery system that is accessible, equitable, culturally acceptable, affordable and sustainable. P&SHD aims to improve the health and quality of life of all, particularly women and children, through access to essential health services.
The Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department strives to reform and strengthen the critical aspects of the health systems and enable it to:
- Provide and deliver a basic package of quality essential health care services
- Develop and manage competent and committed health care providers
- Generate reliable health information to manage and evaluate health services
- Adopt appropriate health technology to deliver quality services
- Finance the costs of providing basic health care to all
- Reform the health administration to make it accountable to the public
MINISTER P&SHD
Dr. Yasmin Rashid is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab since August 2018. In 1978, she did her MBBS from the Fatima Jinnah Medical University in Lahore. In 1984, she moved to the United Kingdom and enrolled in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from where received a MRCOG degree in 1989 and a FRCOG degree in 1999. She served as the President the Pakistan Medical Association from 1998 to 2000. She served as president of Pakistan Medical Association Lahore chapter from 2008 to 2010 and has been the chairperson of the Task Force Women Development, and chairperson of the Women Health Committee in Punjab
Dr. Yasmin Rashid
Minister, P&SHD
MESSAGE FROM SECRETARY
Primary & Secondary Healthcare Deaprtment has been created with the vision for better service delivery in Primary & Secondary Health Sector. The department believes in all inclusive policy where each team member is an integral part of decision making process and trying to work to best of their potential. We have built a dynamic organization which is a beautiful blend of traditional government processes and modern service paradigm. Together we intend to make Punjab better and healthier.
Sarah Aslam
Secretary, P&SHD
CORE TEAM
Salman Ghani
Special Secretary
Farid Ahmad
Additional Secretary (Administration)
Dr. Asim Altaf
Additional Secretary (Technical)
Omer Farooq Alvi
Additional Secretary (Development)
Ahmed Usman Javaid
Deputy Secretary (Admin)
Aamir Raza
Deputy Secretary (General)
Adnan Irshad Cheema
Deputy Secretary (Establishment)
Amna Tahir Zaidi
Deputy Secretary (Promotion)
Dr. Awais Gohar
Deputy Secretary (Tech-III)
Wajid Ali
Deputy Secretary (Budget)
Rana Mushtaq
Chief Planning Officer
Azher Jamal Saleemi
Chief Drug Controller
Shaheen Iqbal
Secretary PQCB
ORGANOGRAM
