Fourth Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital to start functioning this month
Press Release
RAWALPINDI, March 06, 2011: The Al-Shifa Trust, which is already running
three state-of-the-art eye hospitals in Rawalpindi, Kohat and Sukkur, is set
to formally commission its fourth eye hospital at Muzaffarabad, the first
such facility in eight districts of Azad Kashmir, later this month.
This was disclosed in a meeting chaired by Al-Shifa Trust President Lt Gen
(Retd) Hamid Javaid here on Sunday to review the arrangements for
commissioning of the hospital, which is to be formally inaugurated towards
the end of this month.
Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital Rawalpindi Executive Director Brig (Retd) Rizwan
Ullah Asghar, who coordinates functioning of all hospitals of the trust,
told the meeting that the hospital would be formally inaugurated by the end
of March to provide specialised eye-care services to the people of Azad
Kashmir as well as Gilgit-Baltistan.
The meeting was informed that the 200-bed hospital, built over 50 kanals of
land, has covered area of over 50,000 square feet. It has the capacity to
manage about 800 patients of all type of eye diseases and undertake 100
operations daily. Designed to cater for eye-care needs of the whole region,
the construction of Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital in Muzaffarabad has been
completed at the total cost of Rs250 million.
"Within 10 years, it will become a centre of excellence in the region
providing postgraduate training to doctors and facilities for applied
research to prevent blindness as well as eye care to almost five million
people," the meeting was told. "It will serve as a base hospital for
multiple vision centres in remote areas of Azad Kashmir and
Gilgit-Baltistan."
Giving background of the project, the executive director said that in
Muzaffarabad, a scenic tourist destination and administrative capital of
Azad Kashmir, a colossal tragedy unleashed by 7.6-magnitude earthquake on
the fateful morning of October 8, 2005 changed the lives of people as it
almost totally smashed everything.
"Rising to the occasion, Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, provided a
100-bed fully furnished ward and six-table fully furnished operation theatre
for earthquake victims where over 700 trauma operations were performed.
Since then, the life in Azad Kashmir is sluggishly returning to normal but
the collapse of infrastructure has resulted in marked increase in serious
health problems, including blindness," he said.
With over four million population spread over an area of 13,300 square
kilometres, Azad Kashmir has not even a single state-of-the-art eye hospital
until now. On the top of that, the 1.5 million people of Gilgit-Baltistan
also add to this huge demand for the eye-care facilities.
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