Signs MoU to help with medical equipment and give Rs384 million in funds. PHOTO: FILE
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) on Saturday to provide financial support and equipment.
UNHCR will provide 200 patient beds, 200 bedside lockers, 200 over-bed trolleys, 200 fibreglass chairs for waiting areas, 100 wheelchairs, 50 examination couches, 100 patient trolleys, haematology machines, automatic chemistry analysers, six air curtains and 10 dot matrix heavy-duty printers. It will also provide financial support for the reconstruction of the hospital’s main gate, construction of security rooms, renovation of the boundary wall and existing parking lot, fibreglass and flooring work in waiting areas, paint jobs, and the installation of a public address system.
Similarly, another Rs30 million project on upgrading the radiology department is also in progress.
The project will install a state-of-the-art digital x-ray machine – one of its kind in the province – along with an ultrasound machine. Another Rs384 million has been announced by UNHCR for the purchase of equipment for KTH.
Speaking to participants at the occasion, KTH Chief Executive Inayat Shah Roghani said the construction of the Plastic and Burns Unit is expected to be completed by June 30 at the hospital’s own expense. He thanked UNHCR for its support and said the organisation had come forward to the aid of humanity.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 20th, 2014.
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The public should take note that the only equipment being provided is to the Radiology Department who's head is also the Chief Executive, Dr. Roghani. If someone could fix the emergency department and get even one specialist in emergency medicine there, it would be appreciated. And please give them sutures since they stitch several patients with the same length of suture and the same needle. I think Dr. Roghani doesn't believe in transmission of HIV/Hep B and C. It would seem like I am being unfairly critical of Dr. Roghani, but since he took over from the previous CE, people expected him to fix the very basic problems. Instead we are getting new machines for a department populated with incompetent doctors. -TMO KTH