Karachi Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab inaugurated the Blue Code Intensive Care Ward at the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) in Federal B Area on Wednesday.
The ward is equipped with modern medical facilities and is capable of treating a person suffering from a heart attack. Two of the KIHD's five catheterization laboratories have been activated, where angiography has been started, while a nursing school has also been activated, and a blue code ward established for emergency cases.
Talking to media representatives after inaugurating the ward, the mayor said resources would be spent for welfare of the people of Karachi, and the journey of the city’s development would continue. “The vision of my party is to equip KIHD and all KMC-run hospitals with modern facilities,” he said, adding that the estimate presented to them for the ward was between Rs120 and Rs190 million but the hospital administration activated this ward at a cost of Rs200,000 only, which was commendable.
The affairs of the hospital, the mayor vowed, would be conducted transparently. The nursing school in the hospital premises had been activated and currently, 140 students were getting education there by paying a fee, and 130 others were getting free education based on merit.
He said that the city government had addressed the poor conditions of a road near the hospital that started from Rashid Minhas Road at the UBL Sports Complex and ran towards Shahrah-e-Noor Jehan.
Despite the fact that the union committee and town administration was not run by Pakistan Peoples Party’s elected representatives, he said, the city government still fixed the road and installed street lights.
“Today the situation around this hospital is better,” he said. Wahab was of the view that the KIHD could serve the people of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and other areas because it took time for them to reach the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in case of any emergency.
The Sindh government was spending a lot of money on health facilities, and the NICVD was currently an ideal heart hospital in Pakistan, the mayor stated. “Our aim is to connect the KIHD with the NICVD,” he said.
