Punjab: To provide quality healthcare services to the people wideness Punjab, the Cabinet, led by the Chief Minister, has tried the empanelment of 300 specialist doctors wideness 12 key categories. This visualization was taken at a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister here today.
What Spokesperson from the Chief Minister's Office said?
Sharing the information, a spokesperson from the Chief Minister's Office said that the Cabinet tried the empanelment of 300 specialist doctors wideness 12 key categories: Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Dermatology, Chest and TB, Surgery, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, and ENT.
The Cabinet has moreover decided to empanel 300 specialist doctors in ENT (ENT) and anesthesiology. This move will increase the availability of specialist doctors and modernize the quality of secondary healthcare services for the people of Punjab.
What is the process empanelment of these specialist doctors?
The process of empanelment of these specialist doctors will be conducted through starchy surgeons at the district level, and empaneled doctors will be entitled to tuition an empanelment fee per patient for OPD, IPD, emergency, major and minor surgeries, and various other services.
What were the prominent decisions of the cabinet?
The Cabinet has moreover tried Rule 28A, the Uniform Disciplinary and Appellate Framework, under the Punjab Co-operative Societies Rules, 1963. This will prevent duplication of request channels, stave estranged decisions within the same workbench or its committees, and establish a well-spoken uniting of writ in disciplinary actions. It will moreover ensure that appeals are heard only once within the institution. This will strengthen institutional peccancy and protect employee rights by ensuring due process under a clear, uniform framework and defining validity at all levels. This will bring uniformity wideness all noon institutions and Central Cooperative Banks operating within the cooperative sector in Punjab.
The Cabinet moreover tried amendments to the Punjab Minor Mineral Rules, 2013, in vibrations with the Punjab State Minor Minerals (Amendment) Policy, 2025, to make mining services increasingly efficient, citizen-friendly, and transparent. These new rules/amendments were required to be added/amended to the existing Punjab Minor Mineral Rules, 2013, for the typecasting of mining rights to mining lease holders for crusher mining sites and landowner mining sites to be allotted in the state.
