City Nazim Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said the construction work of 47-storey IT Tower in the vicinity of Civic Center at a cost of $200 million would start within few weeks. Around 40,000 youth would get employment in the IT Tower.
Which would be the country's tallest building and would have 10,000 call centers of which 6,000 have been booked so far, the Nazim stated this, in his address, to a "Technology Showcase" event held at a local hotel.
The event was organised by the Inbox Business Technologies (IBT), an end-to-end technology solutions company, to highlight various technology-related initiatives taken by the City District Government Karachi (CDGK).
Chief Guest Mustafa Kamal described the importance of using technology to make administration of the city easier and, for the betterment of its citizens.
He said a full-scale Enterprise Resource Planning Application, Health Management and Information System (HMIS) has been introduced at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), city's largest public sector hospital, to ensure the availability of improved patient-care and better administrative controls.
Mustafa Kamal noted how the implementation of HMIS at ASH had increased transparency, reduced pilferage, and increased accountability of the hospital staff for the benefit of patients.
He also stressed the need for the importance of transparency at public sector hospitals through an effective reporting system. "The system would prevent misuse of medical supplies issued to the hospital, so that the truly needy could be able to get the required medicines," he added. Praising the work on Citizen Complaint Management and Information System (CCMIS), the City Nazim termed it a unique system world over.
He said using the CCMIS the citizens of Karachi are able to directly register their complaints related to KWSB, KESC and KMC etc at the city's Call Center 1339. The calls are monitored and logged by the vigilant, efficient and well-educated staffers who have been employed from the private sector to ensure timely actions on complaints, he added.
Kamal surveying progress on the Wireless Video Security and Surveillance System (WVSSS) said by using the system, live video feed from the cameras installed along the two signal-free corridors would be viewed from a central location in the city.
He said the WVSSS would help detect and prevent traffic congestion and minimise suspicious activities and street crimes in the vicinity. Elaborating the Land Management System (LMS), a land lease-related document repository,
Kamal told the seminar that how the system would help citizens identify any ambiguities in ownership of real estate, and prevent fraudulent activities and property-related disputes.
Ghias Khan, Chief Executive Officer, IBT elaborated upon usage of the HMIS to uplift the health sector with better administration of hospitals and efficient utilisation of hospital resources. "Using HMIS, world-standard healthcare best practices can be introduced in public and private sector hospitals in Pakistan," he said.
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