A 1,350-bed hospital with free care for patients from underserved communities has been built in the Korangi neighbourhood of Karachi thanks to a collaboration between the Sindh government and the leading healthcare charity in the nation.
Syed Murad Ali Shah, the chief minister of Sindh, made this announcement at the opening ceremony for the blood transfusion services facility at the Indus Hospital, Karachi’s premier nonprofit medical centre.
The hospital will be built by the Sindh government and the Indus Hospital and Health Network (IHHN) on a 20-acre plot of land for Rs 24 billion.
The hospital’s construction costs will be borne by the provincial government to the tune of 50%.
The CM urged the management of the IHHN to ensure that construction of the new hospital was completed in the shortest possible time, preferably in three years, keeping in view the pressing essential healthcare needs of the disadvantaged patients in the province.
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He assured that that there would be no delay in the release of funds from his government for the early completion of the hospital.
Tele clinics
He appreciated that the new hospital in addition to providing free treatment services would launch tele clinics to provide consultation services to the needy in all areas of the province.
He said that collaboration with charities like the IHHN was the prime example of public-private partnership in the health sector to serve the downtrodden people in the best possible manner.
He said the free health services provided by the public and charitable health facilities in the province were the only viable way to treat patients from poor families which didn’t have the financial means to access quality healthcare facilities.
“Given the steep rise in healthcare costs these days the only way to treat patients from deprived families is to provide them free treatment facilities,” Shah said.
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He expressed gratitude to the philanthropists who generously donated to run charities like the IHHN while stating that such donors through their acts of kindness shared the responsibility of his government that was under the obligation of providing quality health facilities to every resident of Sindh.
Speaking on the occasion, IHHN founder Dr Abdul Bari Khan promised to complete the hospital project in the shortest possible time.
