Rawalpindi:
The Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital (RTH) has approached the Rawalpindi Commissioner, the Income Board (Bor), the Punjab Secretary of Health and the District Development Committee to build a surgical tower and a 100 bed trauma center at the demolished cinema site Roz in Fawara Chowk, Raja Bazar.
Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC), which has already built a limit wall around the site, has proposed a several -story parking space in the same place.
The Historic Hospital of Fawara Chowk, training of the Hospital of the District headquarters and is now updated to the Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital, is adjacent to the Old Roz Cinema site. After the cinema lease and an order of stay in the court expired, the RMC demolished the structure and locked the plot of Kanal Eight with a high limits wall. Then, the corporation presented a proposal to the Punjab government for the construction of a parking space on the site.
On the other hand, RTH currently operates with a severely limited emergency installation of only 30 beds, and is overloaded with patients. The hospital administration proposed the construction of a surgical tower, helipad and a 100 -bed trauma center on the site.
According to Dr. Ikramullah Khan Niazi, RTH’s medical superintendent, the site was originally assigned to the hospital in 2006, but the construction could not proceed due to a court order. Now that legal obstacles have been authorized, the hospital has once again presented the proposal to the Secretary of Health.
The matter has also been called to the attention of the Rawalpindi commissioner, who has referred to Bor. The problem was raised at a meeting of the District Development Committee, where officials highlighted the urgent need for expansion due to the overwhelming burden of hospital patients.
If approved, the project would not only establish a modern trauma center, but would also include a heliport for the air ambulance services on the roof, significantly improving emergency health provision in the region, Niazi added.
However, when it contacted, the director of RMC, Imran Ali, says that the unemployed land is a municipal property, and the corporation intends to build a several -story parking space there.
The project aims to relieve traffic congestion and provide parking solutions for surrounding areas, including Fawara Chowk, Raja Bazaar, Kashmiri Bazaar, Ganjmandi, Liaquat Road, Iqbal Road and Jinnah Road, adds.
