Sialkot hospital revamp to cost Rs390m
The Government Allama Iqbal Teaching Hospital will be revamped at a cost of Rs390 million.
Gujranwala Division Commissioner Naveed Haider Shirazi said while addressing a meeting after visiting the health facility hospital on Monday that he DHQ hospital's electricity system would be repaired and wiring replaced.
He promised restoration of water supply, upgradation of sewerage system and reconstruction of washrooms and floor tiling in the hospital.
The commissioner ordered removal of parking stands from inside the hospital, saying all vehicles should be parked at one place on vacant land.
He said a separate passage and gate should be constructed for the trauma centre. The commissioner reviewed a proposed project of construction of blocks and addition of 50 beds in the trauma centre under private-public partnership.
He visited the trauma centre, neurosurgical, ortho-surgical male and female wards, ICU, emergency, operation theatres, medicine stores, pathology lab and waiting room and reviewed the facilities being provided to patients.
The divisional commissioner also reviewed a project under the Road Rehabilitation Programme in Daska and Sambrial. He also visited the Daska Stadium and issued instructions for a sewerage system.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 22nd, 2023.