Foundation stone laid for dialysis centre at DHQ

Health facility will have 50 state-of-the-art dialysis machines

RAWALPINDI:

As part of the up-gradation government hospitals, the foundation stone for a new dialysis centre was laid at the District Headquarters Hospital Rawalpindi.

The dialysis centre will have 50 state-of-the-art dialysis machines. Federal Parliamentary Secretary and Member National Assembly Sheikh Rashid Shafiq, Rawalpindi Medical University Vice-Chancellor Dr Muhammad Umar and Medical Superintendent Dr Farzana Zafar laid the foundation stone of the new dialysis centre at the District Headquarters Hospital.

Five dialysis machines will be installed in the first phase and after that, it will be expanded to 50 machines. Rashid Shafiq said that the dialysis centre will cost a total of Rs267.33 million. In the first, we will install five dialysis machines, and after that, it will be expanded to 50 so that the people can have a dialysis facility under one window.

Rashid Shafiq said that a state-of-the-art dialysis centre is also being constructed at the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant and 200 machines would be installed. He said that the project will cost Rs300 million, and a tender has also been issued, which will open on April 13.

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He said that the up-gradation of the medical treatment system in all city hospitals is at full speed to provide quality medical treatment to all the citizens in government hospitals.

Rawalpindi Medical University Vice-Chancellor Dr Muhammad Omar said that kidney disease is spreading quickly but patients' lives can be saved from this disease by providing excellent quality and standard treatment on time.

He said the process is under way to improve the capacity of the DHQ hospital, the Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant Centre and the Holy Family Hospital by further enhancing the provision of state-of-the-art dialysis facilities. The vice-chancellor said that the Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant Centre would be functional with the opening of emergency, OPD and the dialysis centre in the first phase when Covid-19 virus cases subsided.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 22^nd, 2022.