More serious patients have arrived in Islamic International Medical College Trust-Railway Hospital, Rawalpindi and Islamic International Medical Complex, Islamabad from the quake hit areas.
IIMCT Railway Hospital Rawalpindi, a teaching hospital of Islamic International Medical College, has so far received 530 patients from Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Rawalakot, Kohala, Manshera, Balakot and Batgram. Most of them were critically injured. Surgeons carried out surgeries of 204 patients in the hospital.
Most of them were fractured cases. Islamic International Medical Complex Islamabad, another teaching hospital of Islamic International Medical College, provided treatment to over 70 patients.
Islamic International Medical College Trust sent medical teams to various affected areas of the NWFP and Azad Jammu and Kashmir besides establishing field medical camps at Bagh, Kohala and Muzaffarabad. A field hospital was established at Balakot.
Doctors and para-medical staff from IIMCT Railway Hospital, Rawalpindi and Islamic International Medical Complex, Islamabad, are deputed in the field hospital and medical camps. The hospital and the camps are equipped with operation theatre facilities and other makeshift infrastructure to provide medical aid to the earthquake victims of the area.
Around 2,500 patients have so far been treated at the relief medical camps set up by IIMCT at Bagh, Kohala and Muzaffarabad in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Manshera, Balakot and Batgram in the NWFP.
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