Trauma Centre at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital inaugurated
September 21, 2006
KARACHI: Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan, has underlined the imperative need for making the health sector more functional in view of ever increasing population in the city.
In this regard, he said, a website be developed in every town of Karachi, providing details of performance of health sector, statistics, availability of facilities and also how people could benefit from the facilities of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical tests. He was speaking at the inauguration of Trauma Centre of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital equipped with modern facilities on Wednesday.
He directed the city government to set up medical satellite units, attached with Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, in all the 18 towns so that all such patients, who wish to get admission to hospital, are provided better medical facilities. The governor said that in the past the condition of this hospital had turned miserable and no one would wish to admit there for treatment.
But now, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal and his team have given a state-of-the-art shape to this hospital where previously neither medicines nor doctors used to be available, he observed. From management point of view, Ebad pointed out, the hospital had been in a state of total disarray and would give more a scene of jail than a hospital. He said the provision of most modern facilities at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital today is a grand example of public-private partnership.
Today, the hospital is providing best possible medical service to people with up gradation of wards achieved through day and night efforts by doctors and now it will be expanded very soon under an expansion plan to be implemented with the federal and provincial government’s cooperation.
The governor said that now the hospital has all the capacity to fulfil the requirements of Karachi Medical and Dental College, which will be upgraded to university level. He recalled that in the past, this hospital used to provide the house job facility, which was done away with due to non-availability of required facilities.
However, the city’s elected leadership has transformed Abbasi Shaheed an ideal hospital, equipped with medical facilities of international standard, for house job.
Later, the governor went round various sections and departments and appreciated their up gradation and standard.
The city Nazim briefed the governor about availability of medical facilities and management performance. Mustafa Kamal said that this is the biggest Trauma Centre of Sindh constructed at a cost of Rs218 million. It has 25 beds, 14 ventilator machines, and three operation theatres.
In this regard, he said, a website be developed in every town of Karachi, providing details of performance of health sector, statistics, availability of facilities and also how people could benefit from the facilities of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medical tests. He was speaking at the inauguration of Trauma Centre of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital equipped with modern facilities on Wednesday.
He directed the city government to set up medical satellite units, attached with Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, in all the 18 towns so that all such patients, who wish to get admission to hospital, are provided better medical facilities. The governor said that in the past the condition of this hospital had turned miserable and no one would wish to admit there for treatment.
But now, City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal and his team have given a state-of-the-art shape to this hospital where previously neither medicines nor doctors used to be available, he observed. From management point of view, Ebad pointed out, the hospital had been in a state of total disarray and would give more a scene of jail than a hospital. He said the provision of most modern facilities at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital today is a grand example of public-private partnership.
Today, the hospital is providing best possible medical service to people with up gradation of wards achieved through day and night efforts by doctors and now it will be expanded very soon under an expansion plan to be implemented with the federal and provincial government’s cooperation.
The governor said that now the hospital has all the capacity to fulfil the requirements of Karachi Medical and Dental College, which will be upgraded to university level. He recalled that in the past, this hospital used to provide the house job facility, which was done away with due to non-availability of required facilities.
However, the city’s elected leadership has transformed Abbasi Shaheed an ideal hospital, equipped with medical facilities of international standard, for house job.
Later, the governor went round various sections and departments and appreciated their up gradation and standard.
The city Nazim briefed the governor about availability of medical facilities and management performance. Mustafa Kamal said that this is the biggest Trauma Centre of Sindh constructed at a cost of Rs218 million. It has 25 beds, 14 ventilator machines, and three operation theatres.
