BBH to provide facility of CT Scan to all patients from Monday

Rawalpindi
The Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH) administration has announced to make the facility of CT Scan available to all patients from Monday as the minimum required number of test runs has not been completed as yet.
The hospital administration would be able to provide the facility of CT Scan to all patients from Monday, as according to protocol, the BBH has to complete at least 100 test runs before making the facility operational in all three shifts, said BBH Chief Dr. Asif Qadir Mir while talking to ‘The News’ on Tuesday.
He said that over 80 tests have been done on the newly installed CT Scan so far. The CT Scan is operational for nearly four weeks however, at present, the tests of indoor patients are being done on it, he said.
Dr. Mir said that all the concerned staff including doctors at the Radiology Department of BBH has been trained for working on the modern 16-slice CT Scan.
It is important that the facility of CT Scan was supposed to be operational in September 2014 as in June last year, the Punjab health department has placed order for it to a supplier directing the firm to install and make the equipment operational within 90 days.
Dr. Mir said the BBH is trying to make the facility of CT Scan available for all patients at the soonest in all three shifts. “In the morning shift, the facility of CT Scan would be available to all patients including routine patients visiting outpatients department and the patients admitted to the hospital in wards while in the evening and night shifts, the facility would be provided only to the patients in emergency department.”
To a query, he said the new CT Scan has been installed in Accident and Emergency department of the hospital and trained staff would be available to operate the scan in all three shifts from Monday.
The CT Scan is a radiological diagnostic (X-ray) scanning machine that is used to take cross-sectional images of a part of the body through axial tomography that can be monitored on computer screen. The CT Scan is used for diagnostic purposes in a number of cases requiring treatment particularly at medical, orthopaedic and neurosurgery departments.
Dr. Mir said the CT Scan installed at the BBH is of latest type and is capable of performing 16 slices whole body plain and with contrast scan. The equipment would be utilized to perform cerebral, carotid, pulmonary, aortic, renal and abdominal angiography while virtual bronchoscopy and colonoscopy would also be performed at it, he said.