ISLAMABAD: Realising the need for improved health facilities for residents of the federal capital, the government is working on plans to build more hospitals and medical facilities to expand the present ones.
According to sources, the government is working on a project to launch state-of-the-art cancer hospital for the federal capital during the current fiscal year.
There is another proposal under consideration to set up a 300-bed general hospital in federal capital to reduce workload on main hospitals like Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) and Polyclinic.
PIMS has been catering to medical needs of 10,000 patients daily on an average. These patients come from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA, Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and northern Punjab.
The hospital has free of charge diagnostic facilities of X-ray laboratory, ECG, ETT, EEG and other tests for public as well as government servants and their dependent family members, ambassadors of foreign countries, judges and parliamentarians.
Despite numerous health facilities in the capital, the patient care needs to be upgraded. State Minister for Capital Administration and Development (CADD) Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry agreed that health care facilities had not been upgraded despite increase in population of capital over long time.
The government is taking steps to expand capacity of PIMS and Polyclinic. Polyclinic will be expanded within months as the CDA has given possession of 20 kanal area to the hospital where previously Argentina Park was located.
The minister is also aware of lack of health facilities in rural areas of the federal capital. The real task is to improve condition of Basic Health Units (BHUs) and Rural Health Centres (RHCs).
It is being planned to send doctors of PIMS and Polyclinic to Basic Health Units and Rural Health Centres on rotation to ensure patients to get better medical treatment.
DAILY TIMES.
YEMI.
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