Hospital to undergo Rs1.56 billion revamp

DIJKOT:

Allied Hospital management sent a proposal to the government of Punjab to authorise the improvement of the facade of Faisalabad Medical University and the revamping of Allied Hospital, at a cost of Rs1.562 billion.

Medical Superintendent Allied Hospital Dr Faheem Yousaf told the media on Wednesday that Allied Hospital is a tertiary care facility attached to Faisalabad Medical University, providing medical facilities to over 102 million people in the district and around 120 million people of Okara, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Layyah, Sargodha, Hafiz Abad, Mianwali and other adjacent districts as a referral hospital.

Allied Hospital was established in 1987 as an affiliated Hospital with Punjab Medical College, catering to the population of the province’s second largest city. The facility was equipped by JICA (Japan international cooperation Agency) in two phases between 1986-87 and 1994-95.

MS Allied Hospital further said that hospital administration will undertake the construction of the main entry gate and gate pillars, gate keeper huts, boundary wall, new blocks, metalled roads, 33 revamped wards and medical departments, infrastructure development, a new building for issuing slips, nursing counters and to The MS added that between 5,000 and 6,000 patients turn to the OPD for checkups on a daily basis at Allied Hospital to avail the medical facilities including CT scan, x-ray, MRI and cardiac examination.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2023.