UAE-funded military hospital opens
THE 1,000-BED HOSPITAL HAS A CAPACITY TO CATER TO 6,000 PATIENTS, PERFORM 50 SURGERIES
The second phase of the $108 million Pakistani-Emirati Military Hospital inaugurated in Rawalpindi |
RAWALPINDI T he 2nd phase of the US$108 million Pakistani-Emirati Military Hospital has been opened in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi.
The move comes in line with the directives of President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
Major facilities
The 1,000-bed hospital has a capacity to take in 6,000 patients daily. It has 16 fullyequipped operation theatres to perform 50 major surgeries per day.
The opening ceremony was attended by General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of the Staff of the Pakistani Army, Eisa Abdullah Basha Al Nuaimi, UAE Ambassador to Pakistan, Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli, Director of the UAE’s Pakistan Assistance Programme (UAEPAP), a number of senior Pakistan Army officers, senior government officials and the hospital staff.
General Bawja and other guests toured the hospital’s different sections, including the outpatient clinics, specialist clinics, emergency unit, pharmacies, laboratories, radiology section and the blood bank.
They also inspected the operation theatres, in-patient wards, lecture halls and the hospital’s control rooms.
During the opening ceremony, General Qamar Bawja delivered a speech in which he thanked Shaikh Khalifa and Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed for their continuous support to Pakistan.
Ambassador Eisa Al Nuaimi underlined UAE’s keenness to support Pakistan through several humanitarian and development projects.
Al Ghafli said the US$108 million hospital, one of the key projects carried out by UAEPAP, was co-funded by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.