KARACHI, April 16: The casualty department of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, which receives between 350 and 400 patients every day, is doing without an emergency operation theatre.

Whenever a patient requires a surgical operation on an emergency basis, he or she has to be moved to the main operation theatres, which are located on the first floor of another building. The time needed to shift the patients could prove to be costly in terms of fatalities.

According to a press release, however, the JPMC will soon have an emergency operation theatre, the construction work of which has already started. The operation theatre is proposed to be built at a cost of Rs14 million.

The civil work will cost Rs5 million and equipment worth Rs8 million will be installed in the planned facility, said the handout.

The JPMC has already received about Rs6 million in donations for the project. Another Rs1.79 million has been pledged, added the press release.