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The government spends so much money in various projects... I hope someone comes with the idea of building 1000 x hospitals each costing 1 billion rupees in 1000 different locations across Pakistan... It will be network of such good hospitals where all the basic needs can be fulfilled as you will have a good size hospital with reasonable infrastructure after every few kms on your left, right, straight or behind
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Building hospitals is the easy part. Managing and funding them to provide good quality medical services over the long run to patients is the hard part.
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After renal and cornea: K-P govt zooms in on bone marrow transplantation
PESHAWAR: As Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) health department okays an application by the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) to conduct renal transplant, the government plans to start a Hepatobiliary and Bone Marrow Transplant facility in the province.
Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) is the first institute in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) which has been approved to conduct transplantation. It will operate under the watchful eye of the Medical Transplantation Regulatory Authority (MTRA).
Officials privy to the developments said that the second meeting of the MTRA was underway where officials were permissions and regulations for other transplantation procedures and registrations at the provincial health department. There, an idea on training doctors for Hepatobiliary and Bone Marrow Transplant was floated. “Since we do not have this speciality in K-P, it was decided that following MTRA recommendations, four doctors will be trained at the Quaid-i-Azam International Hospital in Islamabad,” a senior health official said, adding “the training cost and other finances will be provided by the K-P government.”
PESHAWAR: As Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) health department okays an application by the Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) to conduct renal transplant, the government plans to start a Hepatobiliary and Bone Marrow Transplant facility in the province.
Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD) is the first institute in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) which has been approved to conduct transplantation. It will operate under the watchful eye of the Medical Transplantation Regulatory Authority (MTRA).
Officials privy to the developments said that the second meeting of the MTRA was underway where officials were permissions and regulations for other transplantation procedures and registrations at the provincial health department. There, an idea on training doctors for Hepatobiliary and Bone Marrow Transplant was floated. “Since we do not have this speciality in K-P, it was decided that following MTRA recommendations, four doctors will be trained at the Quaid-i-Azam International Hospital in Islamabad,” a senior health official said, adding “the training cost and other finances will be provided by the K-P government.”
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SIUT inaugurates new operation theatre
KARACHI: The Bashir Dawood state-of-the-art operation and transplant centre at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) was inaugurated on Friday. This is the first operation theatre of its kind in the country.
SIUT head Prof Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi addressed the opening ceremony of the Bashir Dawood operation theatre complex, where he said he was proud that the centre was inaugurated. He said that Suleiman Dawood, Bashir’s father, was his friend and that friendship translated into aid for the hospital. Dr Rizvi explained how their friendship came about.
According to Dr Rizvi, Suleiman had come to him for treatment and was surprised when he was not charged a fee. The SIUT founder said it feels good to waive medical fees for even those patients who could afford it. The incident impacted Suleiman’s life and he later donated funds to construct a dialysis centre and operation theatre. SIUT has 35 modern dialysis machines that are used to treat patients year round free of charge.
KARACHI: The Bashir Dawood state-of-the-art operation and transplant centre at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) was inaugurated on Friday. This is the first operation theatre of its kind in the country.
SIUT head Prof Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi addressed the opening ceremony of the Bashir Dawood operation theatre complex, where he said he was proud that the centre was inaugurated. He said that Suleiman Dawood, Bashir’s father, was his friend and that friendship translated into aid for the hospital. Dr Rizvi explained how their friendship came about.
According to Dr Rizvi, Suleiman had come to him for treatment and was surprised when he was not charged a fee. The SIUT founder said it feels good to waive medical fees for even those patients who could afford it. The incident impacted Suleiman’s life and he later donated funds to construct a dialysis centre and operation theatre. SIUT has 35 modern dialysis machines that are used to treat patients year round free of charge.
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‘Second cyberknife facility to start functioning at JPMC’
A ‘Jinnah Institute of Cancer and Research Centre’ will be established at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in the next few years where state-of-the-art facilities for the treatment of various types of cancers will be provided free of charge. Also, the institute is in the advanced stages of acquiring the second cyberknife facility very soon.
Eminent radiologist and health expert Prof Tariq Mehmood made these announcements while addressing a gathering organised in his honour at the PMA House on Saturday. “Philanthropists and donors have pledged millions of dollars and billions of rupees for the establishment of Jinnah Institute of Cancer and Research Center at the JPMC and hopefully the first phase of the project would start functioning by 2021,” he said.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) had organised the ceremony to acknowledge the services of Prof Dr Tariq Mehmood, head of the Radiology Department at the JPMC, which was attended by a large number of healthcare professionals and experts, including JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali, Sindh Health Care Commission Chief Executive Officer Dr Minhaj Qidwai, PMA Secretary General Dr Qaiser Sajjad, Prof Tipu Sultan, Dr Mirza Ali Azhar and Dr Malik Hamidullah from the NICVD.
A standing ovation was given to Prof Mehmood, who added dozens of x-ray machines and ultrasound equipment, several MRI and CT Scans, installed PET Scan and a Cyclotron facility at the JPMC, and, above all, he acquired a cyberknife machine for the treatment of cancer patients.
Prof Mehmood gave a presentation on the ongoing and future healthcare projects at the JPMC in collaboration with the Patient Aid Foundation. He maintained that the JPMC had now the country’s best radiology and treatment facilities, which were being offered free of charge to people from across Pakistan.
He observed that instead of establishing and supporting new health institutions in the private sector, the philanthropic segment of the society should strengthen the existing health infrastructure in the public sector, which could effectively meet the healthcare needs of the people of Sindh, especially Karachi.
“The civil society of Karachi is the most generous philanthropic segment in the country and it is supporting scores of healthcare projects in both public and private sectors. It is hoped that it would continue supporting the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in establishing more modern health facilities for the needy and deserving patients.”
Prof Mehmood added that currently 1,800 patients were being served at the Radiology Department of the JPMC on a daily basis, and the number would be doubled in the years to come as more scanning and treatment facilities would be inducted into the department.
“We are in the process of acquiring the second cyberknife facility very soon while more state-of-the-art scanning and imaging facilities would be added to our existing services in the years to come. All this is being done with the financial support from the civil society of Karachi, which is bearing 95 percent of the cost of these equipment and their running costs.”
A ‘Jinnah Institute of Cancer and Research Centre’ will be established at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in the next few years where state-of-the-art facilities for the treatment of various types of cancers will be provided free of charge. Also, the institute is in the advanced stages of acquiring the second cyberknife facility very soon.
Eminent radiologist and health expert Prof Tariq Mehmood made these announcements while addressing a gathering organised in his honour at the PMA House on Saturday. “Philanthropists and donors have pledged millions of dollars and billions of rupees for the establishment of Jinnah Institute of Cancer and Research Center at the JPMC and hopefully the first phase of the project would start functioning by 2021,” he said.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) had organised the ceremony to acknowledge the services of Prof Dr Tariq Mehmood, head of the Radiology Department at the JPMC, which was attended by a large number of healthcare professionals and experts, including JPMC Executive Director Dr Seemin Jamali, Sindh Health Care Commission Chief Executive Officer Dr Minhaj Qidwai, PMA Secretary General Dr Qaiser Sajjad, Prof Tipu Sultan, Dr Mirza Ali Azhar and Dr Malik Hamidullah from the NICVD.
A standing ovation was given to Prof Mehmood, who added dozens of x-ray machines and ultrasound equipment, several MRI and CT Scans, installed PET Scan and a Cyclotron facility at the JPMC, and, above all, he acquired a cyberknife machine for the treatment of cancer patients.
Prof Mehmood gave a presentation on the ongoing and future healthcare projects at the JPMC in collaboration with the Patient Aid Foundation. He maintained that the JPMC had now the country’s best radiology and treatment facilities, which were being offered free of charge to people from across Pakistan.
He observed that instead of establishing and supporting new health institutions in the private sector, the philanthropic segment of the society should strengthen the existing health infrastructure in the public sector, which could effectively meet the healthcare needs of the people of Sindh, especially Karachi.
“The civil society of Karachi is the most generous philanthropic segment in the country and it is supporting scores of healthcare projects in both public and private sectors. It is hoped that it would continue supporting the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in establishing more modern health facilities for the needy and deserving patients.”
Prof Mehmood added that currently 1,800 patients were being served at the Radiology Department of the JPMC on a daily basis, and the number would be doubled in the years to come as more scanning and treatment facilities would be inducted into the department.
“We are in the process of acquiring the second cyberknife facility very soon while more state-of-the-art scanning and imaging facilities would be added to our existing services in the years to come. All this is being done with the financial support from the civil society of Karachi, which is bearing 95 percent of the cost of these equipment and their running costs.”
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Inmol launches new treatment facility
LAHORE - The Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (Inmol) launched Theranostic services and the targeted therapy, claiming to be the first institute in Pakistan offering such facilities to the cancer patients.
A press release issued on Tuesday said the Inmol director and his team felt pride in entering a new era of state-of-the-art Theranostic services with Gallium-68 PET scan, followed by targeted therapy with Lu-177-DOTA-NOC.
It is envisaged that the Theranostic setup will bring a revolution in diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients, because it had the ability to detect and treat the disease with same type of biomolecules.
The Theranostics lab at Inmol being the first such facility in Pakistan is supported by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The commissioning of automatic synthesiser and Gallium-68 generator at Inmol is done under the supervision of Director Dr Abubaker Shahid and Chief Project Investigator Dr Irfanullah Khan. The initiative is funded by IAEA.
LAHORE - The Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology (Inmol) launched Theranostic services and the targeted therapy, claiming to be the first institute in Pakistan offering such facilities to the cancer patients.
A press release issued on Tuesday said the Inmol director and his team felt pride in entering a new era of state-of-the-art Theranostic services with Gallium-68 PET scan, followed by targeted therapy with Lu-177-DOTA-NOC.
It is envisaged that the Theranostic setup will bring a revolution in diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients, because it had the ability to detect and treat the disease with same type of biomolecules.
The Theranostics lab at Inmol being the first such facility in Pakistan is supported by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The commissioning of automatic synthesiser and Gallium-68 generator at Inmol is done under the supervision of Director Dr Abubaker Shahid and Chief Project Investigator Dr Irfanullah Khan. The initiative is funded by IAEA.
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PM approves immediate Rs570m grant for Rawalpindi hospital
PC-I of the cantonment hospital project with the planning ministry shows that the project will be completed in two and a half years.
ISLAMABAD: In apparent violation of rules meant to ensure transparent use of taxpayers’ money, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has issued directives to immediately release over half a billion rupees to upgrade a hospital in Rawalpindi.
The Prime Minister’s Office has approved Rs570 million in development grant for Cantonment General Hospital, Rawalpindi with immediate effect, according to official documents. He has called for giving the funds out of the Rs40 billion that the government has earmarked in the current fiscal year’s development programme for politically connected schemes.
The premier also directed the finance ministry to give an additional Rs230 million for meeting current expenditures for this year as well as for the next four years. He directed that Rs115 million “shall be released as a supplementary grant for meeting partial recurring costs during current fiscal year 2017-18.”
PC-I of the cantonment hospital project with the planning ministry shows that the project will be completed in two and a half years.
ISLAMABAD: In apparent violation of rules meant to ensure transparent use of taxpayers’ money, Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has issued directives to immediately release over half a billion rupees to upgrade a hospital in Rawalpindi.
The Prime Minister’s Office has approved Rs570 million in development grant for Cantonment General Hospital, Rawalpindi with immediate effect, according to official documents. He has called for giving the funds out of the Rs40 billion that the government has earmarked in the current fiscal year’s development programme for politically connected schemes.
The premier also directed the finance ministry to give an additional Rs230 million for meeting current expenditures for this year as well as for the next four years. He directed that Rs115 million “shall be released as a supplementary grant for meeting partial recurring costs during current fiscal year 2017-18.”
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Pakistani patients arrive at a telemedicine online treatment centre run by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the remote Behali area in Mansehra district-AFP
A paramedic member checks the eye of a patient at a telemedicine online treatment centre run by the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the remote Behali area in Mansehra district.AFP
Rasheed said the government initiative works with a local internet provider to bring medical advice to some 15 villages with a population of more than 27,000 people in a rural area where doctors are few.
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Looks state-of-the-art and such hospitals are needed, a government job though.
