With a vision to be the best children’s hospital in Karachi, the Sindh Government Children Hospital (SGCH), which is under the control of an NGO – namely Poverty Eradication Initiative (PEI) under public-private partnership (PPP) mode – has surfaced as the first ever government health facility which is providing international standard quality healthcare services to children under the age 12.
While talking to Pakistan Today, Operations GM at PEI Syed Gohar Ali Shah said the NGO took over the reign of the children hospital on September 30, 2016, to provide a foundation for the next 10 years of the service (first phase of the partnership).
He said that PEI was striving to improve the access and quality of care that resulted in the quick moving of 50-bedded hospital into a 210-bedded functional hospital. “The outpatient services moved from average 300-500 patients a day to 1500-200 per day including speciality clinic while the government staff were given top salaries,” Gohar added.
According to Gohar, the PEI worked on the continuation of medical education, preventive maintenance of the equipment, strengthening of janitorial and security department, isolation care/high dependency care, Qmatic system and free care with respect and dignity. The hospital is providing all the facilities including OPD, IPD, diagnostic, ambulatory care and pharmacy, he told this scribe.
While briefing about the OPD services, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the SGCH Dr Fatima Mohabat Ali said that in January 2017, the hospital had a total of 26,193 patients in just one month, which had now climbed to 44,166 in January 2018 that showed the performance of the hospital and teamwork.
The special OPD had 2,551 patients in January 2017 which became 4,160 children patients by January 2018. The hospital’s pathology department undertook 2,864 tests in January 2017 which jumped to 16,229 in January 2018. The admissions of the children were 297 patients in January 2017 which rocketed pass 696 in January 2018.
Informing about the performance of the surgical department, she said that the hospital had carried out 80 surgeries in January which reached to 199 in January 2018, adding that that hospital’s emergency department treated some 2967 patients in January 2017 which was 10,687 patients in January 2018.
“The hospital has a total strength of some 404 staff that included 77 doctors/specialists, 172 paramedics, 58 in administration, 90 government staff”, Dr Fatima added.
While informing about the future plans, the CEO of SGCH said the PEI was undertaking the renovation of the old building with the view of establishing an extra sixty beds as the hospital would be expanded up to 270 beds. “We are also working to build a strong collaboration with the leading hospitals and institutions and to get ISO certification”, she stated.
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