*secretary calls for establishment of the hospital’s medical college
* Hospital caters to employees of 14 government departments * Cabinet Division
ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary for Cabinet Division Zafar Mehmood on Friday directed high-ups of Capital Development Authority (CDA) to ensure provision of state-of-the-art facilities to patients at Capital Hospital (CH).
According to a press statement, he issued this directive during a visit to the CH. He also asked the CDA to take necessary measures to upgrade the hospital in line with modern technology. Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Atta Muhammad Raja, CDA Chairman Tariq Mehmood Khan and all CDA Board members also accompanied Zafar.
Medical college: He also asked the hospital administration to go for possibilities either to affiliate the CH with any private medical college or set up its own medical college.
He emphasised the need for converting the hospital into a teaching hospital, so that expertise of senior medical specialists could benefit the patients. Zafar directed the authorities concerned to provide latest healthcare facilities and medicines to the city residents.
On the occasion, the CDA chairman said the authority was already working on a plan to upgrade the CH. Emergency services will be improved and professionally skilled experts inducted into the CH medical board, he added. Khan said the CH was already catering to general population of Islamabad besides the CDA employees.
Briefing: Earlier, CH Executive Director Dr Hamid Zaib Khan briefed the Cabinet Division secretary on the hospital. He said the CH, established 27 years ago as a dispensary, had now become third major hospital of this city. He said the hospital was also providing healthcare facilities to the employees of 14 government departments.
Under the CDA chairman’s guidance, Dr Zaib said, efforts were underway to install high-tech equipment and maintain relevant facilities at the hospital to bring it at par with two other major hospitals of the city. The CH is the first healthcare centre of the city that is installing its own oxygen plant, he said.
In the end, the Cabinet Division secretary visited different wards, emergency and X-ray departments and ambulance, rescue and emergency services centre of the hospital.
* Hospital caters to employees of 14 government departments * Cabinet Division
ISLAMABAD: Federal Secretary for Cabinet Division Zafar Mehmood on Friday directed high-ups of Capital Development Authority (CDA) to ensure provision of state-of-the-art facilities to patients at Capital Hospital (CH).
According to a press statement, he issued this directive during a visit to the CH. He also asked the CDA to take necessary measures to upgrade the hospital in line with modern technology. Cabinet Division Additional Secretary Atta Muhammad Raja, CDA Chairman Tariq Mehmood Khan and all CDA Board members also accompanied Zafar.
Medical college: He also asked the hospital administration to go for possibilities either to affiliate the CH with any private medical college or set up its own medical college.
He emphasised the need for converting the hospital into a teaching hospital, so that expertise of senior medical specialists could benefit the patients. Zafar directed the authorities concerned to provide latest healthcare facilities and medicines to the city residents.
On the occasion, the CDA chairman said the authority was already working on a plan to upgrade the CH. Emergency services will be improved and professionally skilled experts inducted into the CH medical board, he added. Khan said the CH was already catering to general population of Islamabad besides the CDA employees.
Briefing: Earlier, CH Executive Director Dr Hamid Zaib Khan briefed the Cabinet Division secretary on the hospital. He said the CH, established 27 years ago as a dispensary, had now become third major hospital of this city. He said the hospital was also providing healthcare facilities to the employees of 14 government departments.
Under the CDA chairman’s guidance, Dr Zaib said, efforts were underway to install high-tech equipment and maintain relevant facilities at the hospital to bring it at par with two other major hospitals of the city. The CH is the first healthcare centre of the city that is installing its own oxygen plant, he said.
In the end, the Cabinet Division secretary visited different wards, emergency and X-ray departments and ambulance, rescue and emergency services centre of the hospital.
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