Advisor to Chief Minister on Health, Khawaja Salman Rafiq has said all out resources will be provided for making Sheikh Zayed Hospital a state of the art institution. He said that after up-gradation of the hospital, new operation theatres will soon become functional through which treatment and surgery facilities will further increase for the patients.
He said this while addressing inaugural ceremony after the renovation of children emergency ward by a well-to-do family at Sheikh Zayed Hospital today. Chairman Sheikh Zayed Hospital Prof. Fareed Ahmed Khan, Administrator Dr. Akbar Hussain, Prof. Bangash, senior doctors and persons of a philanthropist family were also present on the occasion. Kh. Salman Rafiq said that financial cooperation for development projects by philanthropists in government hospitals reflects their confidence in government institutions. He said that government highly values the charity by wealthy people. Kh. Salman Rafiq said that Liver Transplantation Department is being up-graded at Sheikh Zayed Hospital and local doctors will carry out liver transplantation. Chairman Prof. Fareed Ahmed Khan said that he has set up a fund for the treatment of poor patients in the hospital for which he himself donated five lakh rupees. Dr. Fareed Ahmed Khan further said such a system is being evolved in Sheikh Zayed Hospital that at least emergency services could be provided to the patients free of cost. He said that upper storey of Sheikh Zayed Hospital has been completed and steps are being taken for making theatres operational and wards functional at the earliest. Head of the philanthropist family, Ansar Munir who borne the expenses of renovation of pediatric ward said that well-to-do people of the society, instead of looking towards the government, should discharge their social responsibilities and come forward for serving the ailing humanity. He said that his family will bear the expenses of constructing a waiting room for the patients.
