Punjab Health Department
# Punjab Health Department

The Punjab Health Department is a government agency of Punjab, Pakistan that delivers preventive healthcare, as well as curative care health care services from the primary health care level to the tertiary care level.

## Statistics

The Department runs:

* 2,502 basic health units
* 316 rural health centers
* 88 Tehsil headquarter hospitals
* 36 district headquarter hospitals
* 46 Teaching hospitals/tertiary care hospitals
* Pakistan is number 8 out of the 22 most disease burdened countries in the world.
* TB is most common in Pakistan.

## Departments

### Directorate General Health Services Punjab

The Directorate is responsible for overseeing the provision of primary and secondary health care services throughout the province.

### Directorate General of Nursing

The functions of the Directorate General of Nursing are:

* Nursing services
* Nursing education

## List of Director Generals

| Rank and Name | Start of Term | End of Term |
| - | - | - |
| Dr. Riaz Mustafa Syed | Jan 1992 | May 1992 |
| Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan | May 1992 | May 1994 |
| Dr. Habib Ullah | Jun 1994 | Feb 1995 |
| Dr. Khalid Saifullah | Feb 1995 | Mar 1997 |
| Dr. Muhammad Anwar Khan | Mar 1997 | May 1997 |
| Dr. Muhammad Afzal Hashmi | May 1997 | Dec 1998 |
| Dr. Karam Hussain Sheikh | Jan 1999 | Jun 1999 |
| Dr. Tahir Pervaiz Meer | Jun 1999 | Dec 1999 |
| Dr. Khursheed Ahmad | Jan 2000 | Jun 2000 |
| Dr. Saeed Ahmad Qureshi | Aug 2000 | May 2001 |
| Dr. Muhammad Yaqoob Jaffar | Jun 2001 | Jun 2002 |
| Dr. Sabeeha Khursheed | Jun 2002 | Jun 2003 |
| Dr. Khalid Mehmood Tikka | Jun 2003 | Sep 2005 |
| Dr. Muhammad Aslam Chaudhary | Oct 2005 | Jan 2012 |
| Dr. Nisar Ahmed Cheema | Feb 2012 | Mar 2013 |
| Dr. Tanvir Ahmed | Apr 2013 | Oct 2013 |
| Dr. Zafar Ikram | Oct 2013 | Dec 2013 |
| Dr. Zahid Pervaiz | Dec 2013 | Dec 2015 |
| Dr. Mukhtar Hussain Syed | Jan 2016 | Feb 2017 |
| Dr. Faisal Zahoor | Feb 2017 | Nov 2017 |
| Dr. Akhter Rasheed | Nov 2017 | Mar 2018 |
| Dr. Munir Ahmed | Mar 2018 | April 2019 |
| Dr. Haroon Jahangir Khan | May 2019 | November 2022 |
| Dr. Muhammad Ilyas Gondal | November 2022 | present |

### Punjab Health Foundation

The Foundation assists and promotes the private sector in providing better grassroots health care.

## Attached Institutions

### Punjab Pharmacy Council

The Punjab Pharmacy Council regulates the practice of pharmacy.

### Provincial Quality Control Board

The Provincial Quality Control Board was established under the Drugs Act of 1976, to ensure the availability of quality drugs for the general public.

## Autonomous Institutions

Under the Punjab Medical and Health Institutions Act of 2003, the medical colleges and teaching hospitals have been declared autonomous bodies.

