KARACHI, July 19: The new OPD wing, which will be having a number of general and specialized clinics, was inaugurated here at the Liaquat National Hospital on Monday.

Forty OPDs will be conducted daily in the new wing which will house clinics like high-risk pregnancy, early pregnancy loss, reproductive endocrinology, infertility, wound management, orthodontic, oral-maxillo-facial, paediatric cardiology, nephro- urology, sleep apnoea, chronic cough, smoking cessation, pulmonary rehabilitation and diabetic eye clinics.

The OPD wing, established in a six-storey building, will provide modern facilities and quality treatment to patients. Addressing at the inauguration ceremony, LNH's medical director Dr Salman Faridi reiterated the commitment of providing best health care facility at affordable cost.

He said that 42,000 patients were treated annually at the LNH, having 32 departments with the state-of-art facilities. He said that one of the six floors in the newly established OPD wing would have 10 fully-equipped and modern operation theatres.

This floor would be opened soon, he added. LNH Director Administration Ali Azmat Abdi, Chief Controller Finance Amanat Imam, Wajid Ali, Dr Khurrum Shahid and others were also present on the occasion. - PPI