Civil Hospital Karachi (Dr. Ruth K. M. Pfau)

Dr. Ruth K. M. Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi, commonly known as Civil Hospital Karachi, located on Mission Rd, near Civil Hospital Masjid. The hospital was founded in 1898 as a Civil Hospital Karachi, in the wake of a third pandemic of Bubonic Plague. The pandemic would kill at least an estimated 10 million people in India alone over a period of 20 years.

Towards the close of the nineteenth century, Karachi emerged as the cleanest city towards this side of the Suez Canal, with an estimated population of 105,000 which continued to grow in view of its strategic importance. Lord Curzon the Viceroy of India visited Civil Hospital Karachi in 1900 and unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria. The plaque is placed in the same spot, which was initially a nursing school and subsequently transformed into a state-of-the-art Burns Center in what is known till today as the Victoria Block or the Jubilee Block

Facilities

At start the hospital was started with 250 beds to provide basic health facilities but later it was expanded to 1900 beds in 34 departments, over a dozen major operation theaters and a huge out patient’s attendance. Sophisticated laboratory and radiographical procedures, investigations and examinations are performed totally free to benefit the poor patients attending the hospital.

An average of two million out-patients report to the Hospital annually; 95% of which are non-affording patients entailing a huge cost on medicines, laboratory facilities and other logistics.

The following projects have been undertaken and completed by P&D department in the past few years:

SCHEMES ACCOMPLISHED/ COMPLETED

• Up gradation of Medical Unit I,II & III, Dental Department & Surgical Unit I, II, IV
• Construction of General Kitchen
• Establishment of Medical ICU
• Up gradation of Existing Laboratory facilities
• Establishment of Thalassemia Center
• Modernization of Cardiology Services
• Provision of Fibroscan and Elastography equipment at Radiology Department
• Up gradation of Radiology department by providing digital X-ray Fluoroscopy with Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), digital color Doppler, Ultrasound machine with provision of 630 mA/ 150Kv, R/F with TV system
• Matching provision from CHK for Public Private Partnership initiatives:
  1. Up gradation of Burns Center
  2. Up gradation of High Dependency Unit and Operation Theater in Cardiac Surgery Ward
  3. Up gradation of Elective Gynae Operation Theater

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