ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration has prepared a proposal for four mini-hospitals in the city to reduce the burden on existing hospitals.
The formal proposal will be forwarded to Ministry of Interior which will take up the matter with the relevant stakeholders for further assistance, the official sources told APP on Wednesday.
These projects have been proposed at Silaha, Rawat, Bhara Kahu, and Tarnol to reduce the load on existing hospitals in the federal capital.
He said health centers in rural areas would also be upgraded and compulsory rotation of doctors from big hospital to rural health centers would be ensured to provide better health services to the people of these areas.
Due to the absence of healthcare facilities in the remote areas, the two major public hospitals in urban Islamabad remain over-burdened and fail to cater to patients’ needs because of infrastructure, shortage of staff and financial constraints.
About the existing 14 basic health units and three Rural Health Centers in the Capital for around 133 villages in the rural territory, the sources said and added that these health units had also lack of basic infrastructure and staff to run the routine affairs properly.
He agreed that people living in rural areas were not being provided adequate health facilities. Budget constraints and a shortage of manpower prevented the health department from coming up to the expectation of the people, he said and added that government would be requested for a special grant for ICT health department besides establishing these four mini-hospitals.
He said that Islamabad General Hospital was planned earlier but this project also faced scarcity of funds. He hoped this venture of ICT will be implemented after getting approval from the concerned quarters.