SIALKOT: The cardiology department at the Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital will be extended to 65 beds from 45 beds.

Khwaja Muhammad Safdar Medical College Principle Prof Dr Zafar Ali Chaudhry told Dawn on Monday that the department, established with the help of philanthropists, was providing round-the-clock cardiac health and medical facilities to the patients. Dr Zeeshan Butt, Dr Qasim Zia and Dr Shahzad Shaukat were present.

The principal said the department had an intensive care unit with an advanced angiography unit and a cardiac surgery theatre as well.

The outpatient department will receive 100 patients every day while one year ago the admission rate was 250 per month, which has now reached 450 patients.

The doctors took pride in not referring any cardiac patient from Sialkot to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore since the establishment of the cardiology department one year ago.

Published in Dawn, February 15th, 2017