Teaching Hospital: Civil Hospital awaits upgrade

Hospital was declared a teaching hospital and it was decided that its capacity would be increased to 1,100 beds.

GUJRANWALA: Work is yet to be started on upgrading the Civil Hospital. After the establishment of a medical college in Gurjranwala, the hospital was declared a teaching hospital and it was decided that its capacity would be increased from 450 to 1,100 beds.

According to the PC-1, which has been approved, a three-storey building was to be constructed after demolishing the present eye ward, medicine store and residential quarters.

The hospital, visited by about 2,000 patients every day, was to also get a burn unit, a new eye ward and a new morgue. Medical Superintendant Dr Anwar Zaman said he was hopeful work would start soon.

“Everyone will know when that happens,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 19^th, 2013.