Nishat Group Chairman Mian Muhammad Mansha recently inaugurated a state of the art Intensive Care Unit at the Children’s Hospital & The Institute of Child Health in Lahore.
The formal inauguration ceremony was conducted by Children’s Hospital Dean Professor Dr Masood Sadiq and featured chief guest Mian Muhammad Mansha, Professor Dr Sajid Maqbool, Professor Dr Shehryar Khan, members of faculty and other private sector donors.
The Mian Mansha Cardiac Surgery ICU was sponsored by Muhammad Mansha and is equipped with eight motorised beds and the latest medical equipment including an echocardiography machine, Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation Heart Lung Machine, Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy and other technologically advanced equipment that will help in diagnosis and treatment of infants. The ICU has already commenced operations and is regularly accommodating pediatric patients for cardiac surgery and other medical procedures on a charitable basis.
This is a new state of the art cardiac surgery ICU in a new building of the institution. The equipment for the previous five bedded cardiac surgery ICU in the emergency medical services building was also donated by Mansha in 2004. In the last 10 years, over 3,000 cardiac surgeries have been performed on children of all ages there.
Mansha is a committed philanthropist and provides regular support to numerous Pakistani charities and social causes. In the past, he has lent personal support to Salim Memorial Trust Hospital, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital, Human Rights Society of Pakistan, Kidney Care Centre, The Citizens Foundation, Friends of Pakistan Institute of Cardiology Trust, Care Foundation and SOS Village among many others.
The Children’s Hospital is the world’s largest pediatric hospital with over 1,100 beds and 1,500 patients on a daily basis. The hospital provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services with full backup of diagnostic services at no cost to its patients. The Institute of Child Health provides post graduate training to doctors in multiple disciplines.
Published in Daily Times, October 9th 2018.