District Health Authority, Lahore

Dr. Saeed Ullah Khan
Chief Executive Officer

Functions and Responsibilities

The Authority is responsible for the following functions:

• Establish, manage and supervise primary and secondary healthcare facilities and institutions
• Approve the budget of the Authority and allocate funds to health institutions
• Provide stewardship, ownership and oversight of health service delivery at primary and secondary levels within the policy framework given by the Government
• Coordinate planning and allocate finances for provision of service delivery at District level
• Develop referral and technical support linkages between primary and secondary levels of healthcare on the one hand and tertiary level health facilities and medical education institutions on the other
• Develop linkages between private and public health sectors for enhancing access and coverage of healthcare facilities to the general public and improving quality of these services
• Coordinate health related emergency response during any natural calamity or emergency
• Ensure human resource management and capacity development of health service delivery personnel under the policy framework given by the Government
• Ensure performance based contracts with service delivery managers as per prescribed indicators
• Monitor, exercise oversight and performance evaluation of service delivery managers as per agreed performance indicators either directly or through a third party
• Liaison with the Government for technical and logistic support in case of any emergency or disaster like situation
• Ensure timely and adequate reporting of progress on health indicators and issues relating to disease surveillance, epidemic control, disaster management to the Government
• Implement policies and directions of the Government including achievement of key performance indicators set by the Government for healthcare programmers
• Ensure implementation of minimum service delivery standards, infrastructure standards, patient safety and hygiene standards and minimum public health standards as prescribed by the Punjab Healthcare Commission
• Perform any other function as may be assigned by the Government