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| 10 April 2005 | Sunday | 30 Safar 1426 |
KARACHI: Ibad calls for heart units in district hospitals
He said this during his visit to the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) on Saturday.
Dr Ibad also asked that the road on which the NICVD, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), and National Institute of Child Health (NICH), were situated should be further widened to cope with the traffic problems.
The governor, on the occasion, was told that various federal departments, whose offices were situated on the road, had offered to give land to widen the road.
Dr Ibad said that nowhere in the world such volume of patients was witnessed.
He was of the view that in order to tackle this problem the facilities of cardiovascular treatment should also be provided at other hospitals so as to minimize the pressure on the NICVD.
In this regard, he particularly asked to reactivate this department at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) besides other big hospitals.
The governor visited various parts of the institute. He also inspected the proposed emergency gates and traffic arrangements.
Dr Ibad said that the Sindh government was giving top priority to the provision of healthcare facilities in the province.
The head of NICVD, Dr Azhar Farooqi, gave a presentation about the working of his institute to the governor. He told him that 60 per cent deaths were caused by cardiovascular diseases.—PPI
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