Health upgrade: Dialysis centre opens at Bahria hospital

Malik Riaz says they have an agreement with foreign healthcare centres

RAWALPINDI: A modern dialysis centre opened at the Bahria Town Hospital in Rawalpindi on Friday where the poor will be provided with treatment free of cost.

The ceremonial tape to inaugurate the centre was cut by Bahria Town Chairman Malik Riaz in Bahria Town Rawalpindi’s Phase 8.

“We wish that people in Pakistan are provided with modern facilities in different sectors such as education and healthcare,” Riaz said on the occasion.

In this regard, the Bahria Town chief said that they had signed an agreement with the Saudi-German Hospital in Dubai and the Harley Street Clinic in London — where deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz sought treatment.



Riaz said that six chairs have been placed in the dialysis centre which will be steadily increased to 32. The emergency ward has 15 beds.



He further said that as many as 800 patients are treated every day at the Bahria International Hospital in Rawalpindi. Heart bypass, angiography and other surgical facilities are some of the facilities being provided in this hospital.

Riaz said 21 doctors from the Harley Street Clinic in London will travel to Pakistan, with three visiting Lahore, Karachi and other cities every month. He added that soon work on building these world-class healthcare institutions will start so that people do not have to travel abroad for treatment.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 20^th, 2018.