Healthcare standard certification for DHQ on the cards

Rawalpindi district headquarters hospital meets 90% indicators set by PHC

RAWALPINDI:

The process of issuing an international standard healthcare licence to the district headquarters (DHQ) hospital Rawalpindi has entered final stage after meeting 90 per cent of indicators set by the Punjab Healthcare Commission for service delivery.

The international standard's licence will be issued on April 14 after a final inspection. The hospital must meet 162 indicators under the international standard for treatment.

Following the approval of the latest mortuary and medical store building projects, the Punjab Health Care Commission has completed three initial inspections of 162 indicators designated for hospital treatment system.

More than 90 per cent of work has been done to bring the standard hygiene, OPD, emergency, the standard of operation theatres, electro-medical equipment used in hospital, blood bank, medical store, a pathology laboratory, wards of all departments, to satisfy the patient's satisfaction on the treatment system, to make the supply with the quality of medicines under the indicators prescribed by the international standard of treatment.

The hospital will have functional five modular operating theatres simultaneously on the upper floor of the emergency room. The state-of-the-art electro-medical equipment will be available in the 34-bed emergency. The central heating colling system will be operational in mid-April. The bid for the latest state-of-the-art 16-slice CT scan machine has been completed.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 10^th, 2022.