‘Work to be completed soon’

KARACHI: Incharge of the emergency ward and joint deputy director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Dr Seemin Jamali said on Wednesday that development work in the emergency ward has started at a cost of Rs4 million and would be completed in the next four months.

Fifty beds would be added to the emergency ward, enhancing its bed capacity to 150. “Increasing the number of beds would resolve the problems of the patients and also increase the patients’ security,” she said, adding that Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has announced the Rs4 million grant for the project, besides the additional Rs1.9 million for medical equipment. About the expansion of the emergency ward, she said that under the new plan, beds would be kept on the ground floor for easy accessibility. More staff would be required after increasing the bed capacity of the ward and a a letter has been written to the Ministry of Health for hiring new staff, Dr Jamali said.

She announced that a new operation theatre would be also established on the first floor.

Published in The Express  Tribune, June 24^th, 2010.