Emergency was declared in all the hospitals of Punjab province where injured persons were being brought from quake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir and the influx of patients was increasing by every passing moment, informed Professor Dr Shabbir Nasir principal of Nishtar Medical College, Multan while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday.
"We have got vacated six wards to accommodate maximum number of injured persons and already admitted patients were shifted to other wards, at initial stage 200 injured would be accommodated in Nishtar Hospital and 150 in Combined Military Hospital Multan," Shabbir Nasir said.
He said that a team of 20 doctors had already left for quake-hit area in Azad Kashmir and adjacent areas.
The injured would also be accommodated in Bahawal Victoria Hospital, Bahawalpur, Shaikh Zaid bin Sultan Hospital, Rahimyar Khan, CMH Okara, Bahawalpur, District Head Quarter hospitals of Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Allied Hospital Faisalabad.
The injured are being shifted to down country by C-130 aircraft so that they could be treated properly.
Punjab Minister for Health Dr Tahir Ali Javid visited the Hospitals and examined the facilities being provided to the patients brought here from quake-hit areas of AJK and NWFP.
He expressed satisfaction over the arrangements and said that they were in the process of dispatching medical teams along with medicines to the effected areas so that the patients with minor injuries should be kept there and only serious patients would be moved here in big hospitals.
He said that more teams of doctors were leaving for Rawalpindi for their onward movement to areas where quake had played havoc and in next day or so over 20 teams of doctors and paramedics would be dispatched to these areas.