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Cancer hospital project inaugurated at PIMS
Minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel inaugurated the 200-bed cancer hospital project at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). Addressing the ceremony, the minister said that a large number of people living in surrounding areas and other cities will get direct benefits from this hospital with having all the […]
Minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel inaugurated the 200-bed cancer hospital project at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS).
Addressing the ceremony, the minister said that a large number of people living in surrounding areas and other cities will get direct benefits from this hospital with having all the necessary medical services for cancer patients.
He said that an amount of Rs one billion has been proposed initially to utilize for the construction of this modern hospital, where all concerned necessary services will be provided.
He said that besides initiating new projects in major hospitals, the government has upgraded the basic health units and rural health centres where daily several hundred patients can visit for the treatment of various diseases and added that more such modern centres will be established in the federal capital. He said that the aim of the government was to provide all basic health services in every place and village so that citizens have all such services at their doorsteps. He said that the major hospitals of the federal capital have been facing a burden of patients and with the setting of new basic health centers, this burden will gradually decrease.
He said that several innovative steps have been taken to make improvements in the health sector and to ensure the provision of all basic health facilities to the country’s people.
He said that the government was making efforts to improve access to quality health services, increase budget allocations for health, and invest in infrastructure to meet the health needs of the people of Pakistan. PIMS’s emergency block project to be extended: The administration of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has decided to expand the new emergency block project of the hospital with the addition of one more floor to ensure the provision of best emergency services to citizens. According to ED PIMS spokesperson Dr. Mubashir Mushtaq Daha, the decision was made on the direction of the Planning Commission of Pakistan as with this new plan further 75 beds would be added to the project.
