EID HOLIDAYS: Allied hospitals’ OPDs, main OTs to remain closed

Rawalpindi

The outpatient departments and main operation theatres at the three allied hospitals in town including Holy Family Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital would remain closed from Monday (today) to Wednesday in connection with Eid holidays announced from June 25 to 28.

Accident and emergency departments of the allied hospitals would be operational on the subject of receiving emergency patients as well as new patients during Eid holidays while indoor patients departments would also be operational as per routine.

Administrations of the three teaching hospitals claimed to have made necessary arrangements to manage patients at their emergency departments and to deal with, God forbid, any unpleasant incident in town during Eid holidays.

Administrations of the allied hospitals claimed that the staff including doctors, nurses and paramedics along with administrative staff has already started performing their duties as per duty rosters prepared for Eid holidays,

The administrations also claimed that the hospitals’ performance during Eid holidays would remain unaffected and the OPD patients would be entertained at the accident and emergency departments.

It is important that during Eid holidays, the allied hospitals receive significantly heavier influx of patients at their emergency departments as compared to routine because most of the private hospitals and clinics do not offer their services in the said period.

Indoor patients department and emergency department at the DHQ Hospital would operate as per routine and the staff at operation theatre at the emergency department would remain available to patients round the clock during Eid holidays, said Medical Superintendent at DHQ Hospital Dr. Khalid Randhawa while talking to ‘The News’.

He added that senior registrar level doctors would be available to patients in the hospital while consultants, Assistant Professors and above, would be on call. He said the pathology departments in the allied hospitals would operate during Eid holidays to perform important tests if needed in emergency.

The hospitals have made arrangements to cater to the needs of patients in emergency and have arranged sufficient quantity of essential medicines at their emergency departments. In-charges of the hospitals’ main medical stores along with other store keepers would remain on call during Eid holidays.

Dr. Randhawa said all ambulances available at the allied hospitals would be operational during Eid holidays. The main operation theatres at the allied hospitals would not operate to entertain routine lists of surgeries however OTs at the emergency departments of the three hospitals would be operational for performing both major and minor surgeries in emergency, he said.