Japan to help build children’s hospital

A hospital for children, with a capacity to cater to 200 patients, will be established within the 18acre premises in Karachi.


Tufail Ahmed June 21, 2010

KARACHI: A hospital for children, with a capacity to cater to 200 patients, will be established within the 18-acre premises of the existing Sindh Government Children’s Hospital in North Karachi, provincial Health Secretary Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi announced on Sunday.

The construction of the hospital, which is being established by the health department in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), will start in July with a grant by the Japanese government worth Rs80 million.

Once functional, the hospital will be able to accommodate 250 patients at a time and will also provide facilities such as operation theatres, medical and surgical ICUs, nursery, incubators, ventilator unit, cardiac surgery centre, business centre, hormone-therapy unit, orthopaedic unit, dialysis unit, MRI, CT scan diagnosis unit as well as treatment for respiration diseases, eyes and height related issues among children. It will also be able to house the hospital’s staff.

The department of development and planning has completed the planning stage of this project on recommendations by health minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed, said Zaidi, adding that the department of health has also entered into an agreement with JICA for the development of a children’s hospital in Sukkur, for which additional secretary Dr Khalid Sheikh has already conducted a tour of Sukkur with the JICA delegation.

The expenses for the establishment of these hospitals will be borne solely by JICA, who have been provided with a feasibility report for the project, said Zaidi.

Zaidi said that the hospital in Karachi will be named “Children’s Institute of Health” and will be affiliated with the Sindh Government Children’s Hospital, while the health minister has proposed that the hospital should be affiliated with the Dow university in the future so that its status can be raised to that of a teaching hospital, dedicated to conducting research and treating child related diseases.

The existing hospital conducts OPDs for 700 patients every day, said MS Dr Asif Zaman, who added that 60 doctors and 70 paramedics are currently working at the hospital where laboratory, ultrasound, dental and diarrhoea treatment facilities are provided.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2010.

COMMENTS (1)

Prof. Hafeezullah | 13 years ago | Reply I appreciate Dr. Sagheer Ahmed Minister of Health Sindh, he is doing his jobe excellently. I appreciate his efforts which he is taking to provide the Health facilities in neglectected areas of Sindh. I would like to request him sir! please also persue and get start the long awaited Sukkur Institute of Cardiology. People will pray for him for his efforts to bring the state of the art health facilities to the door steps of downtorden and neglected people
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