MTI reforms: 70% wards of LRH renovated since 2015

PESHAWAR: Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Board of Governors Chairman Dr Nausherwan Burki has said that after Medical Teaching Institutes (MTI) Reforms 2015, more than 70% wards of LRH have been renovated.

Many new facilities have been being introduced for the first time in LRH, he said adding that Pakistani consultants working abroad have been hired to improve the quality of healthcare at the K-P’s largest hospital.

Dr Burki was speaking at the 22nd meeting of the LRH BOG.

Members of the BoG Justice (retd) Mian Muhammad Ajmal, Dr Shahnaz Nawaz, Khalid Sultan Khwaja, Prof Ghulam Saddique and Shamsul Qayyum also attended the  meeting.

LRH Spokesman Asim Khan said that that Burki led team took some revolutionary steps in the past three years to provide quality of health care with dignity. He said that after the establishment of Acute Medical Unit (AMU) in LRH all medical related patients who needs admission will directly be shifted from emergency to AMU where they will be admitted and will be seen by senior consultants.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 21^st, 2018.