FAISALABAD, Jan 11: The 80-bed emergency block at the District Headquarters Hospital has been made functional and a thalassaemia centre at the hospital will be set up soon.

The hospital is providing orthopaedic facilities to patients at the emergency block and children and gynaecology wards, 16-bed each, have been raised, DHQ Hospital Medical Superintendent Dr Mukhtar Ahmed told District Coordination Officer Saeed Iqbal and Punjab Medical College Principal Dr Asghar Ali during a briefing here on Sunday.

Dr Ahmed said four modern dialysis machines had been installed at the hospital and free dialysis facility was being extended to patients. Besides, he said, medicine and surgery wards had been added to the hospital.

He said free medical treatment was being given to prisoners and nearly 2,000 outdoor patients and added that 500 people were being treated at wards every day.