Dr Jalal said necessary machines and medical instruments were being installed at the hospital’s operation theatre. PHOTO: FILE
The Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology’s Emergency Ward would be upgraded and expanded, FIC Executive Director Anjum Jalal said on Wednesday.
The FIC has been treating an increasing number of patients suffering from cardiac problems, he said. “We realise that the Emergency Ward is not big enough to cater to all the patients,” he said.
Dr Jalal said necessary machines and medical instruments were being installed at the hospital’s operation theatre. He said they would be able to perform heart surgeries on more than 1,500 patients each year from next year onwards. “At present the operation theatre can only cater to between 700 and 725 patients a year.” The executive director said the hospital had been conducting as many as five surgeries a day for the last three weeks. “The theatre’s design capacity allows for no more than three patients a day.” He said children suffering from congenital cardiac diseases were also being treated at the hospital. “I operated on a three-year-old child on Monday.”
Dr Jalal said children suffering from congenital heart disease could be treated at the hospital if they weighed at least 15kg.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2015.
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