Hospital to enhance its services

Intensive care units, new wards to open at PIMS with support of Japanese agency

The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), with the financial support of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will enhance medical services at its Children’s Hospital and Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Centre.

This was decided in a meeting yesterday under the chairmanship of PIMS Executive Director Dr Amjad Mehmood, which was attended by a 10-member JICA team, besides in charge of intensive care department of Children Hospital and MCH, consultants, pathologists, engineers and nursing staff.

Sharing details of the meeting, PIMS spokesman Dr Wasim Khawaja said the decision was taken to improve the quality of medical services for patients.

It was approved by JICA members to extend intensive care units, including neonatology intensive care unit, maternal fetal intensive care unit and high dependency unit, operation theatres for endoscopic and laparoscopic surgeries at MCH Centre, new operation theatres for major surgeries at the Children Hospital and new wards for MCH Centre.

It was also decided to provide equipment and furniture for new facility, revamping the existing system and services and provide buildings for extension of existing departments of Children Hospital and MCH Centre. The equipment to upgrade the existing facilities will be provided by the Government of Japan.

The JICA will assess the feasibility of the requested items and will report the findings to the Government of Japan for making the final decision to provide the equipment.

Dr Khawaja said that the Japanese agencies will provide facilities, including 16-bed neonatology intensive care unit, four-bed maternal fetal intensive care unit, 10-bed high dependency unit and three new operation theatres at Children Hospital and MCH Centre.