RAWALPINDI: Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif has released Rs 84 crore to improve facilities at three allied hospitals in Rawalpindi.
According to reports, of this amount Rs 40 crore would be spent in Holy Family Hospital for the purchase of new MRI machine. This will be the first MRI machine in government run hospitals in Rawalpindi and would provide relief to the poor patients who cannot afford the tests at the private laboratories.
For benazir Bhutto hospital, Rs 14 crores have been released to build a new emergency. The emergency has been divided into two separte sections. One is meant for emergency accidents to provide immediate treatment. Modern beds have also been acquired for the emergency. The emergency would be equipped with all the modern facilities.
The second emergency of the hospital would be resrved for other patients. To improve it, provision 25 beds has been made.
The new emergency would be inaugurated on 20th October.
In addition forty ventilators and ten monitors are also being purchased for the Benazir Bhutto hospital. The city hospitals are in dire need of the ventilators as charges in private hospitals for Ventilator facility are beyond the reach of the poor citizens. The number of Gynae ward’s beds is also being doubled.
Forty crore rupees have been released for urology hospital.
The Chief Minister directed the authorities to complete the provision of modern facilities at all the hospital by 30th June, 2017.
Former MNA from Rawalpindi Hanif Abbasi, who is very active in provision of modern education and health facilities in Rawalpindi said that the system of all the hospitals in city would be computerized in the next three months and there would be online modern facilities available.
