FAISALABAD: The administration plans to set up medical centres of the Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology (FIC) at all tehsil headquarters hospitals in Faisalabad to reduce the load of patients on the FIC.

This was decided on Saturday while Commissioner Ishrat Ali was visiting the FIC along with officials. He said the centres would be set up under the government’s outreach programme that was meant to benefit the people of remote areas.

FIC Executive Director Dr Salak Jalal briefed the commissioner about the facilities being provided to the patients at the hospital and load of patients at the FIC.

The commissioner said all resources would be utilised to provide relief to the heart patients and arrangements made to provide healthcare facilities and medicines at the THQ hospitals. He said emergency heart patients would be referred from the centres to the FIC as not only the people of Faisalabad, but from other districts also were receiving treatment at the FIC.

Sensing load at the hospital, he said efforts would be made for the extension of FIC, adding that the doctors there would examine patients at the THQ hospitals on fix days. Some doctors of the primary and secondary health department will also be sent to the FIC for training, he added.

Published in Dawn, January 5th, 2020