PIC and Gulab Devi Chest Hospital would extend cooperation to provide treatment to the cardiac patients

Lahore: Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and Gulab Devi Chest Hospital would extend cooperation to provide treatment / procedural facilities to the cardiac patients and to reduce the patient load at PIC. Government would provide special funds to Gulab Devi Hospital for this purpose.

It is stated by the Advisor to Chief Minister on Health, Khawaja Salman Rafique while visiting Cardiology Department of Gulab Devi Chest Hospital, here today. Secretary Specialized healthcare and Medical Education Najam Ahmed Shah was also accompanied the Advisor. Chief Executive Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Prof. Nadeem Hayat Malik, Prof. Dr. Asad Aslam Khan from KEMU, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College, Prof. Mehmood Shaukat, renowned cardiologists Prof. Zubair, Additional Secretary Development Zaheer Abbas Malik, Additional Secretary Technical Dr. Salman Shahid and MS Gulab Devi Hospital Dr. Muhammad Hamid were also present on the occasion.

Kh. Salman Rafique alongwith other experts visited the Cardiology Emergency, medical wards, Cardiac Surgery Unit and Angiography Section. On this occasion, Najam Ahmed Shah said that infrastructure of Cardiac Department of Gulab Devi Hospital has capacity to accommodate more patients therefore, the infrastructure and the medical equipment of Cardiac Department would be utilized to provide healthcare facilities to more cardiac patients.

He said that government would provide special funds for utilizing the services of human resource and medical equipment of Gulab Devi Hospital. For this purpose, referral system between PIC and Gulab Devi Hospital would be established. He further said that a linkage would be established in all the public sector teaching hospitals of Lahore where the cardiac treatment facilities are available. He said that data sharing of patients and the number of available beds would be carried out through this linkage system to accommodate maximum patients according to the available space and facilities.

Secretary Health directed that Cardiology Departments of public sector teaching hospitals should be run according to their capacity to reduce the patient load on the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. On this occasion, Prof. Nadeem Hayat Malik informed that only in emergency department of PIC more than 700 patients visit for their treatment daily which include the patients referred from different hospitals of the city.