MRI machine and new ICUs approved for Pak-China Friendship Hospital Gwadar

QUETTA/GWADAR: A key meeting was held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Balochistan Shakeel Qadir Khan. It reviewed in detail the performance and medical facilities of the hospitals run across Balochistan by the Indus Hospital and Health Network. The meeting looked in particular at the present state of the GDA Pak-China Friendship Hospital Gwadar, its available facilities, future expansion plans and needs.

Those who attended included Additional Chief Secretary (Development) Zahid Saleem, Secretary Health Balochistan Mujeeb ur Rehman, Director General GDA Moin ur Rehman Khan, Indus Hospital and Health Network Karachi Chief Executive Officer Dr Abdul Bari, Chief Operating Officer Mazhar Ahmed Siddiqui, Director Medical Services Dr Shamil, Director Operations South Dr Affan Faiq Zada, Deputy Commissioner Gwadar Naqeebullah Kakar, GDA Chief Engineer Haji Syed Muhammad and Head of Campus of the GDA Pak-China Friendship Hospital Dr Nasir Sheikh, along with senior officials of the departments concerned.

Decision to release funds again

The meeting was told that the funds set aside for the hospital in the last financial year were not released in full. As a result, work in some important departments could not be completed as planned. It was decided that immediate steps would be taken to release these funds again so that all projects could be finished on time.

The meeting also decided to set up several new departments and make existing services more effective, in order to provide modern medical facilities at the hospital. It agreed on early practical progress on the purchase and installation of an MRI machine, a modern dialysis unit, modern incubators for newborns, new ICU units, a modern emergency department and new operation theatres. It also agreed on making the modern laboratory fully functional and on setting up special eye, ENT and cardiology facilities.

Free treatment for lakhs of people in Makran

Chief Secretary Shakeel Qadir Khan said the GDA Pak-China Friendship Hospital Gwadar had become a vital medical centre providing quality, modern medical facilities free of charge to lakhs of people in Makran. He said that before the hospital was set up, the people of Gwadar and Makran had to go to Karachi, Quetta and other big cities for treatment. Now, he said, medical services of international standard were available in their own area, which was an important public welfare step by the present government.

The Chief Secretary directed that all the hospital’s needs, modern medical equipment, staff and funds be provided on time so that the public could get better, quality and timely medical care. He said the Balochistan government would use every possible resource to make the GDA Pak-China Friendship Hospital a modern and model medical centre for southern Balochistan.

Photo: courtesy DGPR Balochistan