ISLAMABAD, March 26: Prime Minister Imran Khan performed groundbreaking for the construction of 252-bed Isolation Hospital and Infectious Diseases Treatment Center here on Thursday.
The Prime Minister also inspected a 50-bed quarantine facility, set up at Pak-China Friendship Center.
The Prime Minister was accompanied by Special Assistant to PM on Health Dr Zafar Mirza, Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal, Director General Frontier Works Organization (FWO) Major General Kamal Azfar, Chief Commissioner Islamabad Amir Ahmed Ali and Chinese Ambassador in Pakistan Yao Jing.
The Isolation Hospital would be constructed by the Frontier Works Organization near National Institute of Health over 40-kanal of land, using the pre-fabricated light gauge steel structure. The hospital is expected to complete by 10th of May this year.
The Chinese government would fund the construction of the facility that has extended the assistance of around $4 million.
The project consists of seven patients blocks – four male and three female – a laboratory and diagnostics block and another for accommodation of doctors and paramedics. It would be developed as fully air-tight facility with all doors to be operated through sensors to avoid any human contact.
Chairman NDMA Lieutenant General Muhammad Afzal briefed the Prime Minister about the Isolation Hospital and Center. The NDMA chairman also apprised the Prime Minister of the logistics arrangements being made to cope with the growing needs of the medical equipment across the country including the ventilators, PCR equipment, masks and others. TLTP
