ISLAMABAD: Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has sought allocation of Rs1.54 billion for 17 projects under Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) in the upcoming budget.

The minister of State for CADD Barrister Usman Ibrahim has sent a summary of the projects to the Minister of Planning and Development, Ahsan Iqbal.

According to the summary, the CADD plans to construct 200-bed hospital in sector G-13, besides setting up a research unit for autism centre at National Special Education Center for Mentally Retarded Children in H-8/4.

Moreover, funds are required for the construction of academic blocks for shifting students from evening to morning shift in Islamabad Model Colleges (IMCs) and establishment of literacy cell, the summary said.

The planning ministry has been informed that development in these new schemes will go a long way in fulfilling the needs of the citizens in this regard.

An official of CADD on condition of anonymity said on Tuesday a meeting, chaired by the CADD minister, decided to move the summary to ministry of planning.

However the Vice Chancellor Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University Dr Javed Akram while talking to Dawn said that 200-bed hospital will not meet the requirements of the federal capital, rather it needs 3,000-bed hospital.

“Moreover, hospitals should be made in different parts of the capital to decrease the workload on Pims and Polyclinic,” he said.

“Pims was the latest government hospital of the federal capital made in 1986. Although Pims was made to deal with 500 patients daily but it has been providing treatment to over 7,000 patients daily,” he said.

“Satellite Hospitals should be made all around the city because people from upper Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, AJK, Gilgit Baltistan and Fata come to the Pims for treatment,” he said.

“Moreover Pims should be used as a tertiary care hospital only and satellite hospitals in federal capital should be used as secondary care hospitals to decrease the burden on Pims,” he said.

“There should be emergency, lab and different departments for the treatment and for intensive care of patients,” he said.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2015

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