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New linear accelerator with radiosurgery inaugurated at SKMCH&RC, Lahore​

The Frontier Post

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC), Lahore.


LAHORE: A second top-of-the-line Varian True Beam linear accelerator with stereotactic radiosurgery capability was inaugurated at Wednesday, March 16, 2022 in the Department of Clinical & Radiation Oncology at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCH&RC), Lahore.

The ribbon cutting and plaque unveiling was performed by a young cancer patient, Nisar Ahmed, along with acting CEO of SKMCH&RC, Dr Muhammed Aasim Yusuf. On this occasion, Dr Yusuf thanked all the generous donors for supporting SKMCH&RC’s mission of fighting cancer, especially supporters in Canada, who funded this new and most advanced linear accelerator.

He said, “At SKMCH&RC, we aim to continuously upgrade our equipment and technology, so as to be able to provide the best possible treatment to all our patients.

The addition of this new technology at our hospital in Lahore will cater to the ever-increasing number of cancer patients needing radiation therapy with a high degree of accuracy, precision and speed.” Dr Yusuf went on to say, “As Ramzan approaches, I would like to urge people to support SKMCH&RC’s mission of providing equitable access to quality treatment to all patients.

We treat Zakat as a sacred trust, and have always taken all possible steps to ensure that the utilisation of Zakat complies with Islamic injunctions regarding utilisation for Zakat-eligible patients.

We hope that our supporters will continue to donate generously, enabling us to offer world class treatment to thousands of deserving cancer patients at our hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar, where we continue to treat more than 75% of our patients free of charge, but also at our third, and Pakistan’s largest, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital, currently under construction in Karachi, which is expected to open to patients at the end of 2023.”
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How heartening to see these initiatives! Bless all who work in them, all who helped to build them, all who finance them.

 

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The upcoming Pakhtunkhwa Liver Institute within Khyber Medical University, Peshawar; now close to completion; after revisions to the PC1, phase 1 will be opened this year ....

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Peshawar Institute of Cardiology

Phase 2 of the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology has been completed within a year, with 6 cath labs now operational. This is the first public sector hospital in Pakistan to be ISO certified & soon the first to get JCIA accreditation.

 

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Under construction 1000 bed Nishtar 2 Hospital Multan, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.

 

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New Mardan Medical College, KPK. coming soon..

 

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Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday inaugurated the long-awaited Rescue 1122 service in the province, a collaboration between the provincial government and the World Bank, and handed over 50 ambulances to authorities.

Shah said that the government aimed to procure 230 ambulances, of which 50 are being put to service in Karachi from today.

He added that the ambulance service would be expanded to other divisions and districts of the province later.

"I believe, by October, the fleet of 230 ambulances will be completed," Shah said, adding that the service will add 40 new ambulances to its fleet every month.

The ambulances were the first step towards establishing a full-fledged Rescue 1122 service in Sindh, the chief minister said.

He added that the service was needed because of "unprecedented trends of urban expansion and recurring natural as well as human-induced disasters experienced by the province in the last decade, especially the Covid-19 pandemic".

According to a press release from the Chief Minister House, Shah said it was the government's responsibility to ensure public safety and healthcare by addressing different emergencies.

"My government's top priority is to provide an emergency rescue, relief and rehabilitation service to the people whenever any disaster strikes ... a service which provides aid efficiently and as quickly as possible, a service which deals with the catastrophe as the first responder and tries to mitigate the consequences of it."

A central command and control centre would be set up in the project's next phase, while work was also being done to make divisional headquarters operational, the chief minister said.

In addition, the provincial government was holding negotiations with the World Bank to improve rescue centres across the province, he added.

Shah thanked Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for his support in launching the rescue service with technical help from Punjab.

Health Minister Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho, while addressing the ceremony, said 85 ambulances were already in use in Thatta, Sajawal and Karachi while the 50 new ones being added to the fleet would have advanced trauma, cardiac and obstetric life support facilities.

The ambulances would have drivers and paramedics who would both be trained, she added.

"Aside from the ambulance services, there will also be rapid response centres from Mirpur Mathelo to Gambat, Moro, Hyderabad, Nooriabad and Malir in Karachi. These rapid response centres will be satellites of the Shaheed Benazirabad Trauma Centre. There will also be a rescue centre every 50 kilometres along the highway so as to respond as quickly as possible to any roadside emergencies."

 

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ISLAMABAD: A research centre will be established to figure out reasons behind the increase in cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among people in the country so that steps can be taken accordingly for their prevention.

The centre will be established in a six-storey building at a cost of Rs8 billion and the defence ministry has been nominated as the executing agency of the project. Construction of the building will be completed in three years and all cardiology institutions will become members of the centre.

Health Services Academy Vice Chancellor Dr Shahzad Ali Khan has been nominated as focal person for the project and as a representative of the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS).

Talking to Dawn, Mr Khan said: “Research will be carried out to find out which foods and medicines cause reactions in people. The proposal for establishment of this centre was floated two years back however many wanted to know why research should be carried out near the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology and National Institute of Heart Diseases (AFIC-NIHD). I had pointed out that many people prefer to go to AFIC for treatment which is why research must be done there.”

Mr Khan said the centre would therefore be established in front of the AFIC-NIHD in Rawalpindi.

“I believe that the centre will play a vital role towards finding reasons for increasing cases of heart diseases and solutions to address them,” he added.

Food and medicines have side effects and these can vary depending on what people’s health choices are, he said, adding that, “we have results of research carried out on people in other countries but we cannot depend on it.”

According to data, collected by the World Health Organisation and the NHS ministry, every year 17 million people die of heart diseases across the globe. In 2016, around 19pc deaths were reported due to heart-related issues in Pakistan but now, as per reports, this number has gone up to 29pc, which means that 47 people die of a heart attack every hour.

Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2022

 

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RIUT starts kidney operations on trial basis​

Health official says OPD, emergency and other departments will become operational in one week

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August 01, 2022

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RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUT) — a dedicated health facility meant to provide quality treatment to patients suffering from acute kidney diseases — has started operations on a trial basis.

The RIUT, which could not be made functional since the foundation of the institute was laid in 2012by Shehbaz Sharif as the Punjab chief minister, was converted into a dedicated medical facility two years back for treating Covid-19patients after the outbreak of the infectious disease.

The RIUT administration is now focused on going full-steam ahead with its plans to make the institute functional by opening the hospital’s emergency, outpatient department and dialysis centres initially.

The requisite equipment for the treatment and transplant facility has already been purchased.

RIUT Medical Superintendent (MS) Dr Tahir Rizvi said that around four to five patients were being treated on a trial basis daily at the facility after they were being referred by the Benazir Bhutto Hospital.

The MS, who is also the acting charge of RIUT, said that over 97 per cent of work had been completed at the health facility and the outdoor patient department, emergency and other departments would become operational in a week.

With 30 state-of-the-art dialysis machines, 30 people will be able to have dialysis at the same time.

Kidney stones will be treated with a laser using lithotripsy machines at RIUT which will be the first government hospital for the treatment of kidney diseases in the Rawalpindi division.

Dr Tahir said that RIUT has around 30 dialysis machines and after the completion of the project, the burden on city hospitals for treating kidney patients would be decreased.

He said that the provincial government had provided the required funds, and the process of tenders and quotations was in the final stages for the completion of the project.
Sources said that at the RIUT, 64 vacancies of technical and subordinate staff have also been filled.

The first phase of deployment of professors, specialist doctors and nursing staff has been completed and the process of further appointments against the vacant posts will be completed soon.

Dr Tahir said that around600 staff, including doctors, nurses, paramedical and related staff, would be recruited to provide the best medical facilities to the residents of Rawalpindi and its adjacent areas.

He said that the Punjab government was determined to upgrade the existing health facilities in Rawalpindi, for which all available resources were being utilised to bring a visible change in the delivery of health services.

The MS said that RIUT would be a state-of-the-art urology centre of its kind in the region, providing all medical and surgical facilities to urology and kidney patients.

Health experts have been urging the government to prioritise the project, as the rising number of kidney-related diseases in the country as well as its mortality rates increasing.

They further said that the government must make RIUT operational at the earliest for the treatment of patients who could not afford private treatment.

 

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US donates 36 vehicles to health dept. for better service delivery​

Ashfaq Yusufzai
August 5, 2022

Ambassador of the United States to Pakistan Donald Blome on Thursday handed over 36 vehicles to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health minister Taimur Khan Jhagra. — Photo courtesy: USAID Twitter

PESHAWAR: Ambassador of the United States to Pakistan Donald Blome on Thursday handed over 36 vehicles to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health minister Taimur Khan Jhagra saying the initiative will improve health service delivery at primary and secondary care level as well as coronavirus detection and vaccination through better surveillance and monitoring.

“We [US] enjoy 75 years long cooperation with Pakistan. Our country is assisting the host population in addressing their public health issues through disease surveillance initiatives and will continue with it,” the ambassador told the vehicles handing over ceremony here.

Mr Blome said the US was providing technical assistance to Pakistan for effective response to Covid-19 and had so far donated 62 million vaccine doses to it.

He said the US was cooperating with Pakistan at the federal level with priority being given to the violence-hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“We [US] are assisting Pakistan to improve its maternal health and bring down child mortality through various initiatives,” he said.

The ambassador said the US had imparted training to 27,000 Pakistani doctors.

He said the USAID Integrated Health Systems Strengthening and Service Delivery activity was meant to improve public trust in the provincial government’s services, improve governance, enhance equitable delivery of basic services, including Covid-19 care and inoculation and strengthening health security.

“We [US] have refurbished and donated essential equipment to 180 primary healthcare facilities in addition to operationalisation of seven more hospitals to make maternal, newborn and child healthcare effective,” he said.

Mr Blome said training had been given to 3,000 healthcare providers on infection control and prevention, while 400 were trained in management of critical Covid-19 patients in ICU.

He also said 16,000 lady health workers underwent training in the management of virus-hit people at home.

The ambassador said the US mission, in collaboration with the provincial government, had imparted training to 500 members of the rapid response teams to strengthen monitoring and surveillance and control the outbreak of Covid-19.

He said bilateral cooperation had benefitted both countries over the years and it would continue.

US Consul General in Peshawar Richard H. Riley and USAID Mission Director Reed Aeschliman were also present.

Health minister Taimur Khan Jhagra termed the USAID’s support as crucial for strengthening the Integrated Disease Surveillance System in the province and counted the measures taken by the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf’s government for revamping the health system in the province.

The minister appreciated the US’s assistance in establishing the state-of-the-art burns centre in Peshawar.

“Under a reform programme, we [KP government] have accorded autonomy to 11 teaching hospitals and initiated basic reforms in primary and secondary care system to benefit patients,” he said.

Published in Dawn, August 5th, 2022

 

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Zonergy offers free solar power plants at Bahawalpur hospital​

By Khalid Aziz | Gwadar Pro Aug 5, 2022



ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Gwadar Pro) -China’s renewable energy solutions conglomerate Zonergy has installed four solar power plants at different buildings of BahawalVictoria Hospital in Bahawalpur district of Punjab province.
The plants, having a total peak generation capacity of 325kW, have been installed by the Chinese company free of cost under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agreement with the government of Punjab.
A 40kW solar power plant was set up at the hospital’s blood bank, which caters for the whole region. Other plants were installed at the emergency building and cardiac and kidney centres.
The solar plants also have storage facilities, which will resolve the issue of power outages at the hospital's critical departments. The administration of the hospital has recognised and appreciated Zonergy for the completion of the project at one of the key hospitals in a relatively less-developed area of Punjab.
Zonergy has completed a 300 megawatts solar power plant project in Bahawalpur under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) initiative. The company will expand the project up to 900 MWs with a total investment of US$1.5 billion. The project caters for the need of 200,000 households and has created 3,000 jobs for Pakistani youth.
The company’s CSR initiative also includes an annual internship programme for two public-sector universities of Bahawalpur,installation of solar power plants (20+25 kW) at two degree colleges,a 15 kW solar power plant at the BhailiHigher Secondary School, Multan,5kW solar power plant in emergency departments of two hospitals at Bahawalpur and Multan, development of two resource centres for training on solar and other renewable energy technologies at two universities of Bahawalpur and Multan, installation of 180 kW solar power plant at Nishtar Hospital, Multanand installation of water filtration plant in Bahawalpur.

Zonergy offers free solar power plants at Bahawalpur hospital

ISLAMABAD, Aug 5 (Gwadar Pro) -China’s renewable energy solutions conglomerate Zonergy has installed

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Executive Director of #NICVD Prof.Nadeem Qamar shares the latest improvements and innovations at #NICVDKarachi hospital where all treatments for any form of cardiovascular disease are provided including procedures related to interventional cardiology, bypass surgery, and electrophysiology, amongst others. The hospital’s latest innovations also feature treatments for acute stroke patients who can seek aid within six hours of the stroke to remove and prevent further damage.

NICVD’s Chest Pain Units treat all patients with chest pain, get patients evaluated and provide treatment for all free of cost. All the procedures including ECG, blood pressure, and pulse are provided free of cost, and patients with more severe cardiac problems are referred to the main NICVD hospital.

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