KARACHI, Oct 18: The city government has finalized plans to upgrade one of the leading eye hospitals of Karachi, the Spencer Eye Hospital, to teaching cadre after getting it affiliated with Karachi Medical and Dental College, that will also improve the administrative structure of the hospital which has been marred with a number of public complaints in the recent past.

The health department of the city government has forwarded a proposal to City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, who is also the Chairman of KMDC’s governing body requesting him to get the Spencer Eye Hospital affiliated with the KMDC.

The move will eventually benefit the hospital, the KMDC and even the citizens of

Karachi as the hospital will have to be upgraded as per requirements of Pakistan Medical and Dental Council to make Spencer a teaching hospital for post-graduation in ophthalmology.

Presently Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the Sobhraj Maternity hospital are the two teaching hospitals of the city government but no serious move had been made to bring the Spencer hospital in the teaching cadre.

Since, the KMDC is affiliated the Abbasi Shaheed hospital only its III, IV and final year students learn from the limited facilities available there.

Spencer eye hospital was established in 1940 and it is the leading eye hospital in Karachi.—PPI