Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to establish mother and child hospital centres in various sectors of Islamabad.

A meeting was held under the chairmanship of Commissioner Islamabad Zulfiqar Haidar and Acting Chairman CDA in Islamabad on Tuesday.

The meeting gave the approval to establish mother and child hospital centres and convert dispensaries located in I-10 and G-9 into fully staffed and functional mother and child hospitals with at least one pediatrician and one gynaecologist.

It was decided to construct specialist blocks at PIMS which will include a 50-bed burn centre; an improved mother and child centre; a new 200-bed gynaecology centre; a new trauma centre on the model of Punjab; a new OPD of 150 consulting rooms (catering to 3000 consultations); a 200-bed children’s hospital with a 50-bed central ICU; and a new operation theatres complex.

It was also decided to approve funds for provision of 20 machines for thedialysis centre which will be operational within two weeks. For this purpose, the management of PIMS will submit a proposal for hiring of specialists for liver transplant within one week. Furthermore an incinerator will also be installed at PIMS which will cater to all hospitals in the ICT, the meeting agreed.

It was decided that A MCH will be established in F-11 as well. The chairman CDA will constitute a special committee to finalise the upgradation of these dispensaries to MCHs and the establishment of new MCHs at RHC Sihala, RHC Bara Kahu, BHU Shah Allah Ditta and RHC Tarlai, under the ICT.