The Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) has provided state of the art medical facilities and treated more than 136,337 indoor and outdoor heart patients during past six months. PIC Medical Superintendent Dr Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry said that 77 percent patients were treated free of cost, whereas 631 heart surgeries of the poor patients were performed without any charges during this period.
He said this premier institute was providing free medicines worth Rs three million daily to the outdoor patients. Giving further details of performance of the PIC during past six months, he said 8,377 patients were admitted to the hospital, 90,316 were examined in the OPD and 37,644 patients were treated free of cost in the emergency wards.
Dr Chaudhry said that for the purpose of extending state of the art medical facilities to the patients of the cardio vascular diseases, the government was providing all possible assistance. Besides, the PIC administration was seeking co-operation of the private sector as well as philanthropists to complete under-construction 40-bed ICU and 25 private rooms. He hoped that the completion of an additional building of OPD and emergency ward at a cost of Rs 160 million would solve the problem of rush of patients in outdoor department.
He said that residences for doctors and nurses were also being constructed on priority basis to solve the residential problems of the doctors, nurses and other paramedics, whereas valuable land of the PIC, which had also been vacated from illegal occupants after more than 50 years. He praised the PIC for being the first public sector hospital that had got ISO-9001-2000 certification for its departments - pathology, radiology and quality management.
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