KARACHI, Aug 7: The Abbasi Shaheed Hospital is getting 10 ventilator machines at a cost of Rs60 million that will be inducted within a month. According to a press statement issued by the city government on Monday, after installation of the ventilator machines the hospital administration will provide the facility free of cost to the patients which is usually provided at Rs100,000 per day.

It said that shortage of staff had been met and services of 50 senior doctors had been obtained on contract basis which had considerably improved the hospital’s performance.

State-of-the-art equipment had been installed at operation theatres where all kinds of surgery, including heart and brain, were being performed, it added.

The city government said that national and multinational companies were providing medicines to the hospital as 80 well-known pharmaceutical firms had entered into contract with it for provision of drugs. It pointed out that medicine store had been set up at every floor of the hospital, which had a stock of medicines for one year.—PPI