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| June 15, 2006 | Thursday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 18, 1427 |
Al Shifa to set up 2 more hospitals
KOHAT, June 14: The board of trustees of the Al Shifa International Eye Trust has approved establishment of two more hospitals — one in Quetta and the other in Muzaffarabad — to extend its medical services to all parts of the country as well as to the adjoining areas of Afghanistan.
Chairman of the board of trustees Lt-Gen Jehandad Khan, while chairing a meeting here on Wednesday, said that the trust had acquired a plot of land in Quetta and construction work would start next year. However, the Muzaffarabad project would take some time to kick off due to the reconstruction going on in the city, he added.
About the Kohat Shifa hospital, he said that state-of-the-art eye and general medical treatment facilities had been provided there but it would become fully operational after induction of a team of doctors from the US. He said that the Kohat facility was bigger than that of Rawalpindi but there was shortage of trained staff in Kohat.
He said in order to overcome the problem the trust had initiated a training programme in all cadres and gradually all sections of the hospital would start delivering international standard facilities.
High quality latest machinery had already been installed at its research laboratory to bring down cost of medicines and treatment, he said, adding that eight operations could be done at a time in the hospital due to which the pressure on hospitals in Peshawar had mitigated. Similarly, patients were being provided glasses at a nominal price of Rs50 each.
While thanking the Kohat district government for donating electric water coolers to the hospital, Lt-Gen Jehandad Khan appealed to people and philanthropists to donate generously because the trust alone could not provide treatment facilities to such a large number of patients.
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