Saving lives: Jinnah hospital gets new ICU ward

SMC alumni and other donors contributed towards the six-bed Intensive Care Unit.

KARACHI: The Sindh Medical College batch of 1989-1990 and Patients Helping Hands (PHH) decided to work together and give a little back to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Thursday morning in the form of a new Intensive Care Unit.

The head of JPMC’s surgical department, Dr Sughra Perveen thanked the college alumni, PHH and other donors for their contributions. “The surgical ward is one of the oldest departments at the hospital,” she said. “We have been facing a lot of difficulties because of a lack of space and technology. We are glad that we can now help people who can’t afford these facilities at a private hospital.” She added that the ward was set up by help of generous donors and soon they would also have a ventilator for the patients.

This six-bed ward, according to chief guest and Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPA Faisal Subzwari, was an example of how people should work together for the country and its people. “If you do good work then people will follow you. Initiatives such as this motivate others to do good too,” he said while speaking at the ICU ward’s inauguration ceremony. He added that everyone should work together for the betterment and prosperity of the country.

According to Subzwari, it was time to work beyond personal interests. “The situation in Pakistan in very complex,” he said. “It is a now or never kind of situation. To improve the current condition of the country we have to do more work.”

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2015.