Renovated OPD complex inaugurated at PIMS

Islamabad : Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has resumed outpatient department’s function after the closure of services in February 2020 on account of the dedication of hospital services to dealing with the COVID pandemic.

The renovated, state-of-the-art OPD complex building was inaugurated by Seemin Bukhari, MNA, and Khawaja Saad Saleem, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Medical Teaching Institute.

Present on the occasion were Dean, Federal Medical Teaching Institute Professor Rizwan Taj, Dr. Samee J khan, member BOG, Dr. Minhaj ul Siraj, Hospital Director PIMS, and the Director Bahria Town Foundation.

According to Professor Taj, the renovated OPDs are designed to meet international standards of excellence, in keeping with the vision of the prime minister of introducing health care reforms under MTI. The new OPDs complex has much more organized appointment system and token system in place and the computerized data entry and management of patient data.

The PIMS OPDs had a daily turnover of 6000 patients before February 2020 closure. The pandemic closure of OPDs time was utilized for the much-needed renovation and up-gradation of the OPDs process, he said. He believes that the reopening of OPD services will be a huge relief for the masses who were forced to revert to private health care services in the face of the absence of facilities and adverse circumstances.

The improved service with the capability of catering to the needs of a greater number of deserving patients in all the specialties including gynaecology, dialysis, and any medical or surgical consultations is a welcome step that the board of governors took for the federal capital and surrounding areas since PIMS cater to an extended area of suburbs of federal capital, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa and Punjab, he added.