Altaf Hameed Rao
MIRPUR: After failure of the State government in providing required quality medicare to the ailing population through the state-run hospitals despite tall claims of the ruling clique, Azad Jammu & Kashmir on Saturday achieved a major breakthrough in the health sector in the private sector after the UK-based nongovernmental organization Jannat Welfare Trust shared over Rs. 10 million state-of the-art fully furnished 12-bed block Mirza Abdul Qayyum Memorial Hospital with the coordination of the local NGO Mughal Foundation for the delivery of quality health cover to the local ailing population including free treatment to poor and down trodden.
Chairman of Mughal Foundation and the Chief Executive Officer of Jannat Welfare Trust Haji Muhammad Sabir Mughal, who also hold the prestigious title of MBE (Member of British Empire) awarded by the Queen of United Kingdom in acknowledgement of his meritorious services to the humanity, inaugurated the newly-constructed 12-bed latest block in the hospital here on Saturday. The ceremony was solemnized with the special prayer (duaaya) meeting with the recitation of the verses from the Holy Quran.
Briefing reporters on this occasion of the salient features of the project, Chairman Mughal Foundation and Jannat Welfare Trust Muhammad Sabir Mughal and Executive Director Mirza Abdul Qayyum Memorial hospital Mirza Khalid Qayyum said that new constructed block also involve the special development funds of Rs. 0.4 million for special furnishing of the newly constructed block in the hospital.
Haji Sabir Mughal underlined on this occasion that every of the fully-air-conditioned new block room contains attached bathroom, the remote-controlled bed, folding bed for attendant, desk, wardrobe, LCD, refrigerator, ECG monitor, oxygen kit and other necessity for the indoor patients for round-the-clock.
The hospital currently comprises 20-beds with latest operation theater and the team of seven specialist doctors of various diseases besides the qualified medical and para-medical staff, they told reporters on this occasion. “The hospital project is functioning on No-Loss and No Profit basis”, according to the administrators. The made it clear that the hospital does not belonged to an individual, family or tribe. “Rather it is functioning as one of 25 public welfare projects conceived by Mughal Foundation AJK for the welfare of the masses including poor, down trodden and neglected class – functioning since 1983.
To a question, Executive Director of Mirza Abdul Qayyum Memorial Hospital, Mirza Khalid Mahmood told reporters that poor patients were provided with free treatment in the hospital on producing their computerized national identity cards at the reception. He said that like wise below middle and middle classes of the society also use to visit Mirza Abdul Qayyum Memorial hospital were also entertained with special about 50 percent decrease in the medical inspection fee of only Rs. 500/-.
He said that the hospital was established by Mughal Foundation on self-help basis on self help basis in 1983 under the spirit of serving the ailing humanity especially poor with free of cost treatment. He strongly suggested the AJK government’s due assistance for the expansion of the hospital which delivered medical including surgical treatment to 19565 patients – mostly poor and down trodden, during last one year period.
The ceremony was largely attended among others by the doctors, para medics, philanthropists, bankers, senior journalists, academics, lawyers and the government officials.
