LHC sets four-week end date for hospital parchi slips
Health officials told the Lahore High Court patients will get care without first collecting a registration slip, under a tech-based queue plan backed by a judicial deadline.
Punjab told the Lahore High Court it will end the parchi registration-slip process in all public hospitals within four weeks.
Special Secretary (Health) Nabila Irfan gave the assurance before Justice Malik Javid Iqbal Wains on a Judicial Activism Panel petition.
Emergency and outpatient visitors will not have to collect slips at counters before treatment, officials said.
A technology-based patient management system is planned; the court sought compliance papers and adjourned for six weeks.
The petition, filed in 2020, cites constitutional healthcare duties; the bench warned of action for further unjustified delay.