Expansion: Upside-down plan for new Hayatabad Medical Complex A&E?

OPDs on third floor, MRI, CT-Scan, Ultrasound on first floor.

PESHAWAR: In most hospitals the out-patients department is located on the ground floor and other facilities are on top. At the Hayatabad Medical Complex, though, it seems as if they want to build a new accident and emergency department which houses the OPD on the third floor.

According to a press handout on Monday, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa health department said it is considering the additions to the complex. During a briefing from staffers, Health Secretary Aftab Akbar Durrani asked the complex’s chief executive, Dr Mumtaz Ali Marwat, to submit a report. The estimated cost for the proposed project will be around Rs330 million.

Marwat and his staff presented their design for three floors. On the first floor, the MRI, CT-Scan, Ultrasound and ECG machines would be kept. They want the MRI and CT-scan machines to be privately owned so their faults and repairs will be attended to without delay.

The second floor would have operation theatres and the third floor will consist of the out-patients department. The ground floor has been allocated for a car park.

The health department has yet to approve these plans.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 8^th, 2014.