Medical and Hospital facilities updates

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Under Construction Package B (Phase II) of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute & Research Center (PKLI & RC) Lahore.
Located at Bedian Road Lahore

 

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Sindh to set up its own child health institute

Days after the Supreme Court ruled to hand over the administrative and operational control of the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) to the federal government, the Sindh Assembly passed a law to establish the ‘Sindh Institute of Child Health and Neonatology’. Besides, the Assembly also passed the Sindh Injured Persons’ Compulsory Medical Treatment (Amal Umer) Bill on Monday.

The child health institute bill had been introduced in the Assembly on January 4 and subsequently referred to a special committee for second reading and amendments. “The law is being passed given the need of specialised health care for neonates and children,” said Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Mukesh Kumar Chawla. “The Government of Sindh is planning to set up a child health institute, so that numerous child health outlets can be established under its umbrella,” he added.

According to the new law, technical expertise and trained human resource will be provided to all child emergency centres established in different health facilities of the provincial government.

 

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Burn Unit has been operationalised in the Central Hospital in Saidu Sharif, Swat by KP Government..

 

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IBA Karachi, Saaya Health join hands

KARACHI : The Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi has launched its new partnership with Saaya Health.
Together, they will provide Online Mental Health Counselling services to IBA’s student body, as well as its staff and faculty. The IBA, Karachi launched its mental health counselling department over a year ago. Given the overwhelming response from students, and the demonstrated need for such services, the IBA took the step to supplement its existing services with Saaya Health’s solution. Students will login to Saaya Health’s exclusive online portal for the IBA, and schedule live video counselling sessions with Saaya Health’s dedicated team of mental health counsellors.

The online feature of Saaya Health gives students the option to access counselling from their home or university, and it offers them a greater range of time slots to choose from beyond the usual 9am-5pm. Research has shown that online counselling is just as effective as in person counselling. The exception is when there are crisis cases that require immediate intervention. For such cases students will be referred to in person professionals.

“Stress is a part of our lives. We must equip our students with the right tools to manage stress. Their well-being and their success is dependent on it,” said Director Human Resources Mashooque Bhatti, about the value of such initiatives at the launch event held at IBA’s main campus. The event consisted of an interactive workshop led by Saaya Health’s Co-founder, Alizeh Valjee, which focused on various techniques for stress management. It was attended by IBA’s students, staff and faculty, and involved them speaking about their individual experiences with stress.

 

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Upgradation of Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore almost completed

 

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Sheikh Mukhtar Hospital Multan

Made by Sheikh Mukhtar a private hospital in Multan.

 

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Mother of UAE’ orders deployment of field hospital

The wife of the founder of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan has ordered deployment of a field hospital in Balochistan for the medical treatment of women and children.

Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, commonly known as ‘Mother of the UAE’ has directed setting up hospital and mobile clinics in the villages of Balochistan, which will work under a one-year operational plan, Emirates News Agency (WAM) said on Friday.

Under the supervision of an Emirati-Pakistani volunteer medical team headed by the Emirati cardiac surgeon Dr Adel Al Shameri, the hospital will work in coordination with UAE embassy in Pakistan and the government and non-profit organisations.

 

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Yao Jing Ambassador Chinese Embassy Islamabad, with his brotherly efforts to provide a better health facilities for the deserving people of Quetta-Balochistan, initiated to provide medical Equipments & Machinery in SANDEMAN PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL Quetta-Balochistan

 

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Japan to spend $10.6m on nutrition, health

Japan has announced its contribution of US$10.6 million to fight malnutrition, improve livelihoods and increase resilience to natural disasters in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Balochistan provinces.

This is part of a partnership that the government of Japan signed with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) in Islamabad on Monday.

Out of the total US$10.6 million, US$3.5 million will be used for early identification and treatment of 155,000 acutely malnourished mothers and children in the K-P, including families who have been displaced from Afghanistan and vulnerable host populations.

 

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Burn victims in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa can now receive treatment in Peshawar. With USAID Pakistan support, 120-bed center will provide world-class trauma treatment and plastic surgery services, and can treat 10,000 patients annually.

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The Kidney Centre Karachi inaugurate a state-of-the-art new emergency department staffed by doctors specially trained and highly experienced in emergencies of urology and nephrology, supported by highly trained nurses. 24 hours services with laboratory and radiology services.

 

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ISLAMABAD: A 13-member expert group from China has shortlisted around 20 projects for implementation within a year in all the four provinces and special areas — Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan — to be funded with Chinese grant under socio economic cooperation.

The Chinese government has agreed to provide up to $1 billion grant for socioeconomic development and poverty reduction projects under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) on the request of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government. The socioeconomic development and poverty reduction initiatives were earlier part of the CPEC long-term plan.

The expert group, led by Du Zhenli, has been in Pakistan since Feb 26 to explore possible areas of grant assistance and held a wrap-up session at the Planning Commission on Thursday. The two sides agreed to select 20-23 projects in the first phase which could be implemented in the first year. For this, the two sides decided to prioritise interventions where infrastructure was already in place, a senior official told Dawn.

Therefore, it was agreed to have six burn centres across the country — in four provinces and two special areas — where space and infrastructure could be made available at the existing hospital buildings so that Chinese grant could be utilised to install equipment and modern ventilators etc. The project is easy to execute and can be completed within few months since the infrastructure is already available in the hospitals.

Responding to a question, the official said the burn centres already exist in major hospitals of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar and hence it was decided to have one in Hyderabad or Sukkur in Sindh, Bahawalpur in Punjab and Dera Ismail Khan or Swat in KP. The centre for Balochistan will be developed in Quetta as patients with burn injuries were currently being transported to Karachi.

Besides health sector, other projects for grant assistance were shortlisted in areas of water supply, education and fisheries and agriculture. The four provinces and AJK and GB had come up with more than 100 projects in various sectors but the two sides decided to focus on around two dozen with shortest possible gestation.

The expert group visited various parts of Punjab and KP and held meetings with other provincial governments in Islamabad as their field visits to Sindh and Balochistan had to be cancelled owing to the closure of airspace. The Chinese side would submit their input on project concepts and estimated costs on their return to Beijing before finalising formal agreements for implementation, a senior official said.

According to the officials, projects proposed by the provinces and AJK included those in agriculture, fisheries, health, solarisation of water supply schemes, telemedicine, smart schools etc. However, the shortlisted projects were mostly smaller in size involving $3-10 million because the Chinese wanted to move to the next phase on the basis of success of the first phase.

The Chinese expert group discussed the implementation of the newly introduced socioeconomic sector under CPEC in detail, the sources said, adding the two sides’ finalisation of action plan to help launch pilot projects in the selective districts of the country. China has agreed to extend Pakistan a grant for socioeconomic development through China International Development Cooperation Agency.

During the 8th Joint Coordination Committee meeting of CPEC held in Beijing during last December, a joint working group (JWG) on socioeconomic development was established to devise an action plan. A memorandum of understanding in this regard as well as on poverty reduction was signed during Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to China in November last year.

The JWG had identified six areas for future cooperation including education, agriculture, poverty alleviation, skill development, healthcare, water supply and vocational training projects. The action plan will provide guidelines in the development of these six areas. The initiative will be focused on less developed parts of the country particularly Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan, southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Northern Sindh and Southern Punjab.

Soon after the formation of working group, the federal government asked recommendations of the provinces regarding the identifications of districts, areas of cooperation that were then shared with Chinese socioeconomic development expert team.

 

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We need tertiary care centers in government sector across pakistan...
The situation is critical for big cities like karachi, lahore, rawalpindi, banu, kohat, gilgit, saidu shareef, peshawar, rahimyar khan, multan, sukkur, jand/pindi ghaeb, mianwali, quetta and hyderabad.
Some of you may be surprised that rahimyar khan, bahawalpur, multan and sukkur caters to patients from balochistan.
Same way peshawar and rawalpindi gets loads of patients from GB, FATA and kashmir.
We need to decrease the patient load by providing facilities near source.
If we cant do that then provincial capitals along with a few bigger cities need 1 to 2 tertiary care centers above 1000 bed capacity as smaller or specialized units wont work.

 

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NHS establishes model Infectious Diseases Centre

Govt revamping all health services centers in Islamabad to convert them in a Model City

Federal Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) on Saturday established model infectious diseases centre for the testing and treatment of hepatitis C and TB.

The centre was inaugurated by federal minister for NHS Aamer Mehmood Kiani at G-7/3 Dispensary.

On this occasion Federal Health Minister said that government of Pakistan is revamping all health services in Islamabad to convert it in a Model City.

 

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Taimur Jhagra visited newly constructed state-of-the-art THQ Hospital in Mohmand District. The hospital will provide health services to the people of Mohmand and nearby Bajaur District. All health related facilities are provided in THQ Hospital in Mohmand District

Taimur Jhagra assured District Administration, Pakistan Army and especially the local people that KP Government will act proactively and operationalise the hospital. The hospital will benefit Mohmand and Bajaur districts people.