Member Board of Governor (BoG) KTH, Dr Nadeem Alam, Hospital Director Dr Nekdad Khan, Acting Medical Director, Chairman Child Health Care and Associate Dean Prof Dr Irshad Ahmed, Incharge Cardiology Prof Dr Amber Ashraf, In-charge Pulmonology Prof Dr Saadia Ashraf, Pulmonology Associate Prof Dr Rukhsana, Senior Media and Protocol Manager Farhad Khan along with faculty and management were present on this occasion.
Provincial Minister for Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai has expressed his gratitude and appreciation to HEAC patient welfare organisation for donating an Echo machine and said that with the motivation and inspiration of Pakistan’s visionary leader, he along with his team is working day and night for making bringing the health sector at par to international standards.
The minister said that the provincial health department is working dedicatedly on strengthening tehsil and district health facilities in order to reduce burden on tertiary care hospitals in Peshawar.
Yousafzai said that he will support the release of funds for new A&E building and in connection, he promised to arrange a meeting with the K-P Chief Minister Mahmood Khan.
The department of cardiology catered to 6,524 OPD patients and 1,500 patients were admitted from January 1 till now. Similarly, more than 11,531 Echo, 40,229 ECG and 302 ETT were conducted in MTI KTH till now.
During this year almost 90,000 thousand tablets and related medicine was given to the poor patients during the different free cardiology camps by HEAC in cardio OPD.
MTI KTH Cardiology Department has four full time consultants with In-charge Prof Dr Amber Ashraf, Associate Prof Dr Muhammad Faheem Khan, Assistant Prof S Sadiq Shah and Assistant Professor Dr Farooq Ahmed.
The BoG and hospital management lauded and appreciated the HEAC patient welfare organisation health services for ailing humanity and specially for MTI KTH.
Life support courses started in 2012 at Khyber Teaching Hospital under supervision of Cardiology Department. Till now more than 1,500 doctors, nurses, paramedical are trained for basic life support.
Hospital Director Dr Nekdad Khan and Acting Medical Director Prof Dr Irshad Ahmed briefed the minister about the available services in the hospital and thanked him for sparing his time on weekend.
Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai visited different sections of hospital and inquired about the medical services from the patients and attendants.
Minister inaugurates High Definition Echo Machine in MTI KTH
Honourable Information Minister Shaukat Yousafzai inaugurated the High Definition Echo machine worth Rs 0.8 million donated by Health Education and Community services (HEAC) welfare organisation.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2019.
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