Pakistan, Sept. 26 -- Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Friday announced a monthly "Hospital of the Month" award for hospitals demonstrating outstanding performance across the province.

Presiding over a video-link meeting, the chief minister decided to transform 300 Maryam Nawaz Hospitals (Rural Health Centres) into fully fledged hospitals and noted that 911 Clinics on Wheels had provided medical care to 30 million patients within a short period.

The meeting also decided to introduce digital medical boxes for Clinics on Wheels for the first time in Punjab. The boxes would facilitate ultrasound, blood sugar, CBC and ECG tests through a single system. A camera could also be connected to the digital medical box for teleconferenc...