Pakistan’s first ever medical mall to open up in Islamabad

Author: NNI

Prominent United Arab Emirates-based MBF Group has announced to establish an integrated medical city that will also feature a first-ever medical mall of the country in Islamabad.

The agreement of MBF with Ibchez Housing and Nixon, according to the report, will include the construction of a hospital that will provide medical services at international standards. MBF Group Founder Sheikh Muhammad Bin Faisal Al Qasimi said the project will include a 400-bed university hospital that will offer the most advanced levels of healthcare services. The medical city will also feature the country’s first medical mall, therapeutic and recreational areas, a regional cardiology centre and an orthopedic centre, he added.

He noted that the city will include a nursing college and is expected to serve some one million patients and clients on a monthly basis. There is a need for such advanced hospitals to serve Pakistan’s growing population, he stressed.

Sheikh Muhammad Bin Faisal Al Qasimi pointed out that the investment provided for the medical city has reached $970 million, while noting that its land has been purchased, as well as the desire of all parties to complete the project on time, in a bid to answer the growing demand for medical services in Islamabad and provide specialist health services that are in short supply.

He informed that the group will manage the city’s 1,000 medical, technical and administrative staff, who will all be Pakistanis, and is responsible for providing medical equipment and beds.

Published in Daily Times, August 21st 2018.

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