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Qureshi berates PML-N govt for neglecting South Punjab

Meaning there isn't one in kpk

Dear Mr. Baboon... you may not be aware but there is this beautiful thing called Google. I don't blame you since the person you worship hasn't brought any education to your dehaat. Well unfortunately for you I have been luckier and can actually use the wonderful thing called Google. A simple Google search revealed this:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=BURN...UTF-8#safe=strict&q=burn+hospital+in+peshawar

I recommend you refer to either one of those on the list, because you just got BURNED. That is your destiny Mr. Baboon, to have your *** handed to you at every given opportunity because you are a sub-human with IQ of a wooden spoon.
 
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Dear Mr. Baboon... you may not be aware but there is this beautiful thing called Google. I don't blame you since the person you worship hasn't brought any education to your dehaat. Well unfortunately for you I have been luckier and can actually use the wonderful thing called Google. A simple Google search revealed this:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=BURN...UTF-8#safe=strict&q=burn+hospital+in+peshawar

I recommend you refer to either one of those on the list, because you just got BURNED. That is your destiny Mr. Baboon, to have your *** handed to you at every given opportunity because you are a sub-human with IQ of a wooden spoon.
He got owned lol.
 
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Ok i hate pmln but this is a valid question SMQ could have the face to call out pmln on absence of burn unit but there is not even single one in KPk? Why the hell? That means the guy who already is a sham of a politician is playing cheap politics over dead bodies?

Absence of burn unit was a reason behind high death toll but is there one in kpk?
 
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I most give credit to PPP for not playing politics, they know their own performance to say something.
Sans burn units, patients forced to seek treatment outside K-P

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Though the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led provincial government claims to revolutionise the health sector, it has failed to provide one very important facility. In a province where blasts and explosions are very routine, hospitals there have no isolation wards and burn units.


The province’s lone 120-bed burn unit at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) is still under construction, though it was supposed to be completed four years ago through the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF). According to insiders privy to the matter, the only reason why it could not be completed was that WWF failed to release Rs600 million to get the equipment for the unit.

Just a room

Since viral diseases like Congo and dengue keep plaguing the province, basic isolation set-ups are established time and again to prevent patients from infecting others. Sometimes, patients with contagious infections are shifted to private rooms.

Shrouded in terror: Blast victims burned beyond recognition

However, this very basic system poses a serious threat to patients, their attendants, visitors, and medics. Without isolation wards and rooms which have methods of decontamination, everyone involved remains at risk; specially burn victims whose nerves and other organs are often exposed in the absence of skin.

“I wonder why the K-P government doesn’t address this issue, even though we have a dire need of isolation wards what with seasonal influenza in winter and dengue in March, April, October and November every year,” a senior health official told The Express Tribune. “Besides, there is no place to treat patients who come from Afghanistan, tribal areas and other regions, potentially carrying viruses,” he added.

Exposed and vulnerable

The official, who requested anonymity, said the provincial government has not built a burn unit in K-P as yet. “Although we have burn wards where we provide them with basic care, we don’t have a single unit where we can provide specialised treatment to patients with second degree burns, if not more,” said the official.

All patients with more than 20% burn injuries are advised to go to Kharian in Punjab or Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad.

Dr Muhammad Tahir, a plastic surgeon at HMC and the project head for the Burn and Trauma Unit to be built there, said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed with WWF Islamabad. Under the MoU, WWF had promised to provide funds to construct the building and purchase equipment for treatment. The government had also promised to provide land and manpower and run the facility once it becomes operational.

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“Since over 80% of the structure has been completed, Rs600 million are still required to purchase equipment. However, WWF has yet to release the funds,” Tahir told The Express Tribune. “WWF will release funds when it holds a governing body meeting but the meeting has not been held until now for unspecified reasons,” he added.

Acid attacks: Need for post-trauma care of victims stressed

“We currently [treat patients with burn injuries up to 20%] just because we have no other option,” said Tahir, adding over 6,000 people from Peshawar were treated annually at HMC. K-P Secretary for Health Jamal Yousaf told The Express Tribune the issue of establishing a burn centre was under consideration with the prime minister and the chief minister has already issued a letter to the PM in this regard. However, the funds have yet to come. “We treat people in isolation whenever the need arises. However, we cannot convert an existing ward into an isolation one as that’ll cause problems,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2016.

PIMS burn centre coping with KP influx

islamabad - Asima Bibi was playing in the kitchen when she suddenly fell into the cauldron filled with boiling water her mother had just removed from the fire.
Asima, two years old, sustained severe burns on her back, buttocks and lower limbs. Cursing themselves for inflicting pain to their only child, the parents shifted Asima to a private hospital of Hangu, Orakzai Agency.
But misdiagnosis of the severity of her burn injuries and inappropriate burn care deteriorated her condition. The treatment cost was also a financial burden for the poor father, Muhammad Arif, who is a khateeb in a local mosque of Hangu. So, the worried parents shifted their child to Civil Hospital Hangu, where doctors, after examining her wounds, referred her to the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn at Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, for specialised burn care.
But despite claims of having the first burn unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, providing state of the art burn care, as claimed on the hospital website, the hospital staff further referred Bibi to Burn Centre of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, saying that ‘the hospital in Peshawar has no facility to treat burnt patients’.
The Burn Centre of PIMS, which has a limited capacity, was already teeming with patients when the distressed parents, along with their ailing daughter, reached Islamabad. Their ordeal was not over yet. Their daughter was refused admission in the centre.
The poor parents, who had reached the federal capital all the way from the war-stricken region of FATA, sat on the road in front of the centre, refusing to go back.
“This country has no place for us? Where should we go?” Mohammad Arif, Bibi’s father, said. “The ambulance has also gone back now and I have no money to go back. It does not matter if she dies here or at home.”
Finally, doctors, on humanitarian grounds, finally admitted Asima Bibi in intensive care unit where two children were already admitted, accommodating her in a bed with another burnt child against the protocols. She was lucky. Most of the other patients are forced to go back to their native towns and villages.
Bibi’s predicament is just a tiny glimpse of the pain and agony patients with burns and their families go through due to dearth of specialised burn care facilities. There are only a couple of burn centres offering acute burn care for the general public in north Pakistan but most of them are non-functional, putting the patient load of the whole region on PIMS centre. PIMS burn centre has the capacity to admit about 24 patients but on average over 28 patients are accommodated against its capacity, says Dr Ashar Pervez, clinical and therapeutic nutritionist and burn centre’s spokesperson. “Still protests and using political influence to pressure the staff for admissions is a routine here,” he said.
Though, PIMS’ burn centre receives patients from Azad Jammu and Kashmir to Lahore, even from South Punjab, but majority of them are from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, due to its close proximity, severe weather conditions and its precarious law and order situation, doctors say.
With the advent of winter season, the number of burnt patients has increased due to gas loadshedding and cylinder blasts.
According to centre’s data, nearly 15 to 20 patients with burns come daily to the emergency, most of them from KP with totally unattended wounds, without even a basic dressing.
In the last week of December, a family of five, including a woman and two kids, who were severely burnt in a gas cylinder blast in Peshawar, was shifted from Lady Reading Hospital to the burn unit of PIMS. Officials say they were under immense pressure from a PTI MNA to admit the family. The family was admitted but it still led to scuffle and protests. Later, the whole family expired.
Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, secretary information of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and former health minister KP, maintains that the burn unit of Lady Reading Hospital does not offer specialised care. A 100-beded burn centre is under construction in Hayatabad, which is funded by the federal government.
Though health is now a provincial matter after devolution, still the provincial minister blamed the federal government for not supporting health projects in the province.
“The development work on Hayatabad centre is stalled because the federal government is not fulfilling its commitments,” Yousafzai said.
The other burn unit that caters to the whole north region is Burn and Reconstructive Surgery Department at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. But it is also not fully operational.
Prof Dr Moazzam Tarar, head of Burn and Reconstructive Surgery at Jinnah Hospital Lahore, insisted that the department is functional except its intensive care unit. He refused to comment further when asked about the patients referred to Islamabad, saying ‘only one unit is not sufficient for a city with a population of 12.5 million’.
Although Combined Military Hospital, Kharian, and Nescom hospital have small burn units yet they charge heavily from civilians.
People in rural Pakistan suffer tremendously because they are unable to find appropriate burn care on time, said Ihtasham Akram, a health policy expert. “Burn care is neither a priority of the governments nor it’s a part of health reform initiatives because such reforms are not need-based rather technocratic driven.”
Every province should have at least five burn centres at equal distances by dividing districts into clusters, he said, especially the KP and FATA, which have endured the highest number of terror attacks and still reeling from it.
Bibi’s wounds had gangrened with infections and she was severely dehydrated when she reached at the centre, after almost 15 days wrapped in unclean blanket. Most of the patients reach the centre after 24 hours totally unattended with dehydration, infection and hypothermia and at that point not much could be done to treat them, said Dr Ashar.
“At least doctors working in the primary healthcare centres must be given some basic trainings to give initial burn care if the governments cannot build more burn centres,” he said.

KP Burns Hospital unfinished 13 years on

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Peshawar: Under construction for more than a decade now, Peshawar’s only Burn Hospital has yet to open in a city of 1,785,000 people. If completed, the Burn Hospital will also be the first in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province – of which Peshawar is the provincial capital – with a population of 26.9 million.


Marble Slab on Burn, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Centre: Photo by News Lens Pakistan
A marble slab fixed to the incomplete building of the ‘Burn, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Centre’ at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar shows that the project was initiated in July 3, 2003. It was inaugurated by the former chief minister Akram Khan Durrani at the time when Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) – a coalition of 6 religious parties – was in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). However, thirteen years since its inauguration, the province’s only burn centre awaits completion of its construction work to operate.

Since 2003, a number of political figures that came to power in the interim have re-inaugurated the facility, says an official at the Workers Welfare Board (WWB), bringing funds to build the hospital and renewing hopes that the facility would be completed during their governments.

“Besides A.K.Durrani, other officials and politicians have held curtain-raisers for the same project,” the official told Truth Tracker on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media. “They include former-president Asif Ali Zardari, former-chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and recently Zahir Ali Shah, a former member of provincial assembly,” the official added.

According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Health Department of KP and the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF), the former was to provide land for the hospital and the latter would construct and hand over the 120-bed hospital. The Health Department would have then operated the hospital bearing its expenses.

“The hospital is being constructed by WWB with the Workers Welfare Fund but its completion has been long delayed due to red-tape at the federal and provincial level,” said the official.

Asif Majeed, Director Works at WWB, noted that the delay in construction of the Burn Hospital was due to various reasons. He said the construction did not start right after its inauguration but in August 2010 due to lack of interest from the authorities and the dissolution of WWF governing body.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution (2008) resulted in decentralisation of many federal entities to the provincial governments. The devolution of WWB to the provincial government was another reason for the delay, said Majeed, leaving the department in disarray because it had to start afresh at the provincial level. “Due to this the project was put on the back-burner,” he added. This didn’t just delay the launch of the only Burn Hospital in a province but has had financial implication for the completion of the project. Majeed said due to the inordinate delay in constructing the hospital, the total cost of building the hospital had increased by Rs.233 million – from Rs.532 million in 2003 to Rs.765 million now.

However he was optimistic about the early completion of project as. “More than 80 per cent of the construction work has already been done,” he said adding, “We have now submitted a revised proposal in December 2016 to WWF to seek funds. We are hopeful that it will be approved soon and will be followed by construction work.”

Doctors that Truth Tracker spoke to in the two leading hospitals in Peshawar stressed the need for an exclusive Burn Hospital in the province. They said people with burn injuries suffered tremendously due to the absence of such a facility.

Muhammad Tahir, in-charge of Burn Unit at Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), said the annual statistics at the unit indicated that the number of burn cases had been increasing every year. But the only burn-care facility available to patients in the entire province, he said were small Burn Units at the Lady Reading Hospital and the Khyber Teaching Hospital.

“Both units lack specialized facilities essential for patients with burn injuries,” said Tahir. “Even a patient with a second degree burn cannot be treated in either of these centres. They have to be referred to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad or the burn-care unit of Combined Military Hospital in Kharian.”

Both of these hospitals have limited capacity, said Tahir, and are overburdened with local patients. “Mostly patients are admitted only if they have come with a reference from doctors that they need intensive care. Other patients are discharged after provision of basic first aid treatment.”

Asked about construction work on the hospital, an official at the provincial Health Department who didn’t want to be named said in keeping with the MoU signed with the WWB, the department had nothing to do with the project until it was completed and handed over to it.

Tahir said the health authorities at these hospitals approached the WWF and the provincial Health Department several times to ask for expediting the work on the burn hospital. “We have informed them of the situation but to no avail,” said Tahir.

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Ok i hate pmln but this is a valid question SMQ could have the face to call out pmln on absence of burn unit but there is not even single one in KPk? Why the hell? That means the guy who already is a sham of a politician is playing cheap politics over dead bodies?

Absence of burn unit was a reason behind high death toll but is there one in kpk?

There isn't one in KP, all of them come to punjab government hospitals on daily basis but never seen PML-N playing politics over it.
 
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Dear Mr. Baboon... you may not be aware but there is this beautiful thing called Google. I don't blame you since the person you worship hasn't brought any education to your dehaat. Well unfortunately for you I have been luckier and can actually use the wonderful thing called Google. A simple Google search revealed this:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=BURN...UTF-8#safe=strict&q=burn+hospital+in+peshawar

I recommend you refer to either one of those on the list, because you just got BURNED. That is your destiny Mr. Baboon, to have your *** handed to you at every given opportunity because you are a sub-human with IQ of a wooden spoon.


From your link

https://www.geo.tv/latest/132122-Th...rns-centre-in-Peshawar-remains-non-functional
 
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You're being a bit too harsh

Keep in mind, they themselves are beneficiaries of the corrupt system. They have brothers, fathers, cousins who are serving in Police, Customs or other Government Departments and are accustomed to receiving massive bribes. They will continue defending him because they need him to stay in power, so they can continue their haram khor bribes filled lifestyles. In their eyes, Nawaz Sharif is not doing anything wrong because they themselves are engaged in bribes.
Bro,it's beyond level of sickness,sometimes I feel pity of these people's,look we are debt ridden,we are playing a gamble called CEPEC by getting loans,every other days people's are dying due to bomb blasts,security personnel are being gunned down,whole nation is in chaos but we still have some disgusting creatures supporting these lootners.
Every province is cursing Punjab but now I guess those all people's are right because Punjabis have stabbed that nation all the time by voting these Nasoors.
Does, that seems logical a nation is at war and PM and his family will celebrate Eid outside the country and most pathetic thing we have stupid morons supporting there every ill,we haven't got any democracy but 5 years kingship
Ao dehrai lago aur dafa ho jao,Pak fauj betrayed nation by bringing NRO and Mush would have done a great service to nation if he would have killed that whole family in 1999.

I most give credit to PPP for not playing politics, they know their own performance to say something.
Sans burn units, patients forced to seek treatment outside K-P

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PESHAWAR:
Though the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-led provincial government claims to revolutionise the health sector, it has failed to provide one very important facility. In a province where blasts and explosions are very routine, hospitals there have no isolation wards and burn units.


The province’s lone 120-bed burn unit at Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) is still under construction, though it was supposed to be completed four years ago through the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF). According to insiders privy to the matter, the only reason why it could not be completed was that WWF failed to release Rs600 million to get the equipment for the unit.

Just a room

Since viral diseases like Congo and dengue keep plaguing the province, basic isolation set-ups are established time and again to prevent patients from infecting others. Sometimes, patients with contagious infections are shifted to private rooms.

Shrouded in terror: Blast victims burned beyond recognition

However, this very basic system poses a serious threat to patients, their attendants, visitors, and medics. Without isolation wards and rooms which have methods of decontamination, everyone involved remains at risk; specially burn victims whose nerves and other organs are often exposed in the absence of skin.

“I wonder why the K-P government doesn’t address this issue, even though we have a dire need of isolation wards what with seasonal influenza in winter and dengue in March, April, October and November every year,” a senior health official told The Express Tribune. “Besides, there is no place to treat patients who come from Afghanistan, tribal areas and other regions, potentially carrying viruses,” he added.

Exposed and vulnerable

The official, who requested anonymity, said the provincial government has not built a burn unit in K-P as yet. “Although we have burn wards where we provide them with basic care, we don’t have a single unit where we can provide specialised treatment to patients with second degree burns, if not more,” said the official.

All patients with more than 20% burn injuries are advised to go to Kharian in Punjab or Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad.

Dr Muhammad Tahir, a plastic surgeon at HMC and the project head for the Burn and Trauma Unit to be built there, said a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been signed with WWF Islamabad. Under the MoU, WWF had promised to provide funds to construct the building and purchase equipment for treatment. The government had also promised to provide land and manpower and run the facility once it becomes operational.

600m.jpg


“Since over 80% of the structure has been completed, Rs600 million are still required to purchase equipment. However, WWF has yet to release the funds,” Tahir told The Express Tribune. “WWF will release funds when it holds a governing body meeting but the meeting has not been held until now for unspecified reasons,” he added.

Acid attacks: Need for post-trauma care of victims stressed

“We currently [treat patients with burn injuries up to 20%] just because we have no other option,” said Tahir, adding over 6,000 people from Peshawar were treated annually at HMC. K-P Secretary for Health Jamal Yousaf told The Express Tribune the issue of establishing a burn centre was under consideration with the prime minister and the chief minister has already issued a letter to the PM in this regard. However, the funds have yet to come. “We treat people in isolation whenever the need arises. However, we cannot convert an existing ward into an isolation one as that’ll cause problems,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2016.

PIMS burn centre coping with KP influx

islamabad - Asima Bibi was playing in the kitchen when she suddenly fell into the cauldron filled with boiling water her mother had just removed from the fire.
Asima, two years old, sustained severe burns on her back, buttocks and lower limbs. Cursing themselves for inflicting pain to their only child, the parents shifted Asima to a private hospital of Hangu, Orakzai Agency.
But misdiagnosis of the severity of her burn injuries and inappropriate burn care deteriorated her condition. The treatment cost was also a financial burden for the poor father, Muhammad Arif, who is a khateeb in a local mosque of Hangu. So, the worried parents shifted their child to Civil Hospital Hangu, where doctors, after examining her wounds, referred her to the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn at Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, for specialised burn care.
But despite claims of having the first burn unit of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, providing state of the art burn care, as claimed on the hospital website, the hospital staff further referred Bibi to Burn Centre of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad, saying that ‘the hospital in Peshawar has no facility to treat burnt patients’.
The Burn Centre of PIMS, which has a limited capacity, was already teeming with patients when the distressed parents, along with their ailing daughter, reached Islamabad. Their ordeal was not over yet. Their daughter was refused admission in the centre.
The poor parents, who had reached the federal capital all the way from the war-stricken region of FATA, sat on the road in front of the centre, refusing to go back.
“This country has no place for us? Where should we go?” Mohammad Arif, Bibi’s father, said. “The ambulance has also gone back now and I have no money to go back. It does not matter if she dies here or at home.”
Finally, doctors, on humanitarian grounds, finally admitted Asima Bibi in intensive care unit where two children were already admitted, accommodating her in a bed with another burnt child against the protocols. She was lucky. Most of the other patients are forced to go back to their native towns and villages.
Bibi’s predicament is just a tiny glimpse of the pain and agony patients with burns and their families go through due to dearth of specialised burn care facilities. There are only a couple of burn centres offering acute burn care for the general public in north Pakistan but most of them are non-functional, putting the patient load of the whole region on PIMS centre. PIMS burn centre has the capacity to admit about 24 patients but on average over 28 patients are accommodated against its capacity, says Dr Ashar Pervez, clinical and therapeutic nutritionist and burn centre’s spokesperson. “Still protests and using political influence to pressure the staff for admissions is a routine here,” he said.
Though, PIMS’ burn centre receives patients from Azad Jammu and Kashmir to Lahore, even from South Punjab, but majority of them are from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, due to its close proximity, severe weather conditions and its precarious law and order situation, doctors say.
With the advent of winter season, the number of burnt patients has increased due to gas loadshedding and cylinder blasts.
According to centre’s data, nearly 15 to 20 patients with burns come daily to the emergency, most of them from KP with totally unattended wounds, without even a basic dressing.
In the last week of December, a family of five, including a woman and two kids, who were severely burnt in a gas cylinder blast in Peshawar, was shifted from Lady Reading Hospital to the burn unit of PIMS. Officials say they were under immense pressure from a PTI MNA to admit the family. The family was admitted but it still led to scuffle and protests. Later, the whole family expired.
Shaukat Ali Yousafzai, secretary information of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and former health minister KP, maintains that the burn unit of Lady Reading Hospital does not offer specialised care. A 100-beded burn centre is under construction in Hayatabad, which is funded by the federal government.
Though health is now a provincial matter after devolution, still the provincial minister blamed the federal government for not supporting health projects in the province.
“The development work on Hayatabad centre is stalled because the federal government is not fulfilling its commitments,” Yousafzai said.
The other burn unit that caters to the whole north region is Burn and Reconstructive Surgery Department at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. But it is also not fully operational.
Prof Dr Moazzam Tarar, head of Burn and Reconstructive Surgery at Jinnah Hospital Lahore, insisted that the department is functional except its intensive care unit. He refused to comment further when asked about the patients referred to Islamabad, saying ‘only one unit is not sufficient for a city with a population of 12.5 million’.
Although Combined Military Hospital, Kharian, and Nescom hospital have small burn units yet they charge heavily from civilians.
People in rural Pakistan suffer tremendously because they are unable to find appropriate burn care on time, said Ihtasham Akram, a health policy expert. “Burn care is neither a priority of the governments nor it’s a part of health reform initiatives because such reforms are not need-based rather technocratic driven.”
Every province should have at least five burn centres at equal distances by dividing districts into clusters, he said, especially the KP and FATA, which have endured the highest number of terror attacks and still reeling from it.
Bibi’s wounds had gangrened with infections and she was severely dehydrated when she reached at the centre, after almost 15 days wrapped in unclean blanket. Most of the patients reach the centre after 24 hours totally unattended with dehydration, infection and hypothermia and at that point not much could be done to treat them, said Dr Ashar.
“At least doctors working in the primary healthcare centres must be given some basic trainings to give initial burn care if the governments cannot build more burn centres,” he said.

KP Burns Hospital unfinished 13 years on

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Peshawar: Under construction for more than a decade now, Peshawar’s only Burn Hospital has yet to open in a city of 1,785,000 people. If completed, the Burn Hospital will also be the first in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province – of which Peshawar is the provincial capital – with a population of 26.9 million.


Marble Slab on Burn, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Centre: Photo by News Lens Pakistan
A marble slab fixed to the incomplete building of the ‘Burn, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery Centre’ at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar shows that the project was initiated in July 3, 2003. It was inaugurated by the former chief minister Akram Khan Durrani at the time when Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) – a coalition of 6 religious parties – was in power in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). However, thirteen years since its inauguration, the province’s only burn centre awaits completion of its construction work to operate.

Since 2003, a number of political figures that came to power in the interim have re-inaugurated the facility, says an official at the Workers Welfare Board (WWB), bringing funds to build the hospital and renewing hopes that the facility would be completed during their governments.

“Besides A.K.Durrani, other officials and politicians have held curtain-raisers for the same project,” the official told Truth Tracker on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to talk to media. “They include former-president Asif Ali Zardari, former-chief minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and recently Zahir Ali Shah, a former member of provincial assembly,” the official added.

According to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Health Department of KP and the Workers Welfare Fund (WWF), the former was to provide land for the hospital and the latter would construct and hand over the 120-bed hospital. The Health Department would have then operated the hospital bearing its expenses.

“The hospital is being constructed by WWB with the Workers Welfare Fund but its completion has been long delayed due to red-tape at the federal and provincial level,” said the official.

Asif Majeed, Director Works at WWB, noted that the delay in construction of the Burn Hospital was due to various reasons. He said the construction did not start right after its inauguration but in August 2010 due to lack of interest from the authorities and the dissolution of WWF governing body.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution (2008) resulted in decentralisation of many federal entities to the provincial governments. The devolution of WWB to the provincial government was another reason for the delay, said Majeed, leaving the department in disarray because it had to start afresh at the provincial level. “Due to this the project was put on the back-burner,” he added. This didn’t just delay the launch of the only Burn Hospital in a province but has had financial implication for the completion of the project. Majeed said due to the inordinate delay in constructing the hospital, the total cost of building the hospital had increased by Rs.233 million – from Rs.532 million in 2003 to Rs.765 million now.

However he was optimistic about the early completion of project as. “More than 80 per cent of the construction work has already been done,” he said adding, “We have now submitted a revised proposal in December 2016 to WWF to seek funds. We are hopeful that it will be approved soon and will be followed by construction work.”

Doctors that Truth Tracker spoke to in the two leading hospitals in Peshawar stressed the need for an exclusive Burn Hospital in the province. They said people with burn injuries suffered tremendously due to the absence of such a facility.

Muhammad Tahir, in-charge of Burn Unit at Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH), said the annual statistics at the unit indicated that the number of burn cases had been increasing every year. But the only burn-care facility available to patients in the entire province, he said were small Burn Units at the Lady Reading Hospital and the Khyber Teaching Hospital.

“Both units lack specialized facilities essential for patients with burn injuries,” said Tahir. “Even a patient with a second degree burn cannot be treated in either of these centres. They have to be referred to Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) in Islamabad or the burn-care unit of Combined Military Hospital in Kharian.”

Both of these hospitals have limited capacity, said Tahir, and are overburdened with local patients. “Mostly patients are admitted only if they have come with a reference from doctors that they need intensive care. Other patients are discharged after provision of basic first aid treatment.”

Asked about construction work on the hospital, an official at the provincial Health Department who didn’t want to be named said in keeping with the MoU signed with the WWB, the department had nothing to do with the project until it was completed and handed over to it.

Tahir said the health authorities at these hospitals approached the WWF and the provincial Health Department several times to ask for expediting the work on the burn hospital. “We have informed them of the situation but to no avail,” said Tahir.

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There isn't one in KP, all of them come to punjab government hospitals on daily basis but never seen PML-N playing politics over it.
So,why haven't PM questioned KPK Government on that negligence and why haven't he held Sindh Government accountable for hundreds of deths in that
Because
He is bloody thief who has no single interest in running country though he has interest in plundering it.
 
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Shame on all those doing politics over this tragedy .... in this thread or on tv channels
 
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When any building or plaza gets the fire then we know we have no fire extinguisher equipment nor the expertise. Ahmed pur sharqiya incident happened then we knew we have no burn centers. Very few burn units are in Pakistan and none the govt has ever opened the centers in cities. Today the centers had been in at least in big cities, the lives of many people could have been saved. Anyway we are late but at least from today some burn units may be opened at district or divisional level.

Shame on all those doing politics over this tragedy .... in this thread or on tv channels
You are right... our politicians have no heart and do not feel the pain of poor people.
 
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When any building or plaza gets the fire then we know we have no fire extinguisher equipment nor the expertise. Ahmed pur sharqiya incident happened then we knew we have no burn centers. Very few burn units are in Pakistan and none the govt has ever opened the centers in cities. Today the centers had been in at least in big cities, the lives of many people could have been saved. Anyway we are late but at least from today some burn units may be opened at district or divisional level.


You are right... our politicians have no heart and do not feel the pain of poor people.

This comes down to rule of law my friend. I work for an engineering consulting firm and designing fire protection systems for transit stations, airports, water treatment plants etc is part of my job description. Most building bylaws in the States and Canada state that any building that has more than one floor, or is larger than a certain footprint then it needs fire protection sprinkler system. If you do not comply then building permit is not issued and koi mai ka laal can initiate construction.

I have been to many high rise commercial and residential buildings in Pakistan and have struggled to find sprinkler system in even one building.
 
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This comes down to rule of law my friend. I work for an engineering consulting firm and designing fire protection systems for transit stations, airports, water treatment plants etc is part of my job description. Most building bylaws in the States and Canada state that any building that has more than one floor, or is larger than a certain footprint then it needs fire protection sprinkler system. If you do not comply then building permit is not issued and koi mai ka laal can initiate construction.

I have been to many high rise commercial and residential buildings in Pakistan and have struggled to find sprinkler system in even one building.
I do not know why I feel that our all departments have collapsed... There is neither planning nor administration nor the interest of govt... If all department do not work properly including the govt then what to do or how much we have been commenting here is like to sing before the buffalo
 
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Shamless politicains and their dumb blind supporters are busy in political scoring on dead bodies. DISGUSTING PEOPLE
And who was stopping this poti mouth mahmood qureshi to not do any development when he was minister or got elected in his constituency under different political parties. I wish to laugh when status quos lotaz fart from their mouth about change and corruption when they have been part of it for so many years

You're being a bit too harsh

Keep in mind, they themselves are beneficiaries of the corrupt system. They have brothers, fathers, cousins who are serving in Police, Customs or other Government Departments and are accustomed to receiving massive bribes. They will continue defending him because they need him to stay in power, so they can continue their haram khor bribes filled lifestyles. In their eyes, Nawaz Sharif is not doing anything wrong because they themselves are engaged in bribes.
You are big jokes
Do you know numbers of people who voted for PML (N) in previous election? According to your dumb logic they all should have relatives in police, customs and governmemt departments as they cannot vote for PML (N) for any other reasons? While poti boys can vote for those corrupt politicains of same parties who now joining PTI because see no opportunity of getting in rule and looting by staying in PPP. Same logic can apply to you die hard fan of PTI that yoy must have some relatives in PTI that you defend everything IK and his monkeys do in lucky imrani circus

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Shamless politicains and their dumb blind supporters are busy in political scoring on dead bodies. DISGUSTING PEOPLE
And who was stopping this poti mouth mahmood qureshi to not do any development when he was minister or got elected in his constituency under different political parties. I wish to laugh when status quos lotaz fart from their mouth about change and corruption when they have been part of it for so many years


You are big jokes
Do you know numbers of people who voted for PML (N) in previous election? According to your dumb logic they all should have relatives in police, customs and governmemt departments as they cannot vote for PML (N) for any other reasons? While poti boys can vote for those corrupt politicains of same parties who now joining PTI because see no opportunity of getting in rule and looting by staying in PPP. Same logic can apply to you die hard fan of PTI that yoy must have some relatives in PTI that you defend everything IK and his monkeys do in lucky imrani circus
So how do you guys get paid? Is it by the hour or by the number of crap that you write? Clearly you made a new account to write this which shows who's disgusting.

Now coming to your post If PTI is taking in those corrupt politicians what about the PML who has taken members from PML Q and Musharraf era? Here to refresh your memory on the people that are now part of your government:
https://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthr...of-it-as-mentioned-at-their-official-website)

I mean seriously there isnt a thing that you accuse PTI for, you havent done it yourself. The joke of a PM was busy celebrating Eid with 98 members of his family on national exchequer in London while people were getting killed in Pakistan in terrorist attacks and tragedy and than opposition is accused for doing politics on dead people? You guys should be the last people on this planet to raise voice against opposition. But than again how else would you get paid than.
Instead of wasting millions on Mariyam media cell, it should had been spent on building a decent hospital because no matter how many tatoos this cell hires, people know what is happening and how miserably this government of nawaz has failed to deliver.
 
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So how do you guys get paid? Is it by the hour or by the number of crap that you write? Clearly you made a new account to write this which shows who's disgusting.

Now coming to your post If PTI is taking in those corrupt politicians what about the PML who has taken members from PML Q and Musharraf era? Here to refresh your memory on the people that are now part of your government:
https://www.siasat.pk/forum/showthr...of-it-as-mentioned-at-their-official-website)

I mean seriously there isnt a thing that you accuse PTI for, you havent done it yourself. The joke of a PM was busy celebrating Eid with 98 members of his family on national exchequer in London while people were getting killed in Pakistan in terrorist attacks and tragedy and than opposition is accused for doing politics on dead people? You guys should be the last people on this planet to raise voice against opposition. But than again how else would you get paid than.
Instead of wasting millions on Mariyam media cell, it should had been spent on building a decent hospital because no matter how many tatoos this cell hires, people know what is happening and how miserably this government of nawaz has failed to deliver.
How do you get paid by Poti media cell for involving in non stop bashing of PM and defending all lotaz? You get pay by hour or by post?

If bhongs and PTI is doing same like rest then why ride on high horses and claim to be different and holy than rest?
 
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How do you get paid by Poti media cell for involving in non stop bashing of PM and defending all lotaz? You get pay by hour or by post?
Well sadly PTI is not in the government and does not have national exchequer at its disposal other wise who knows i might would have been paid.

If bhongs and PTI is doing same like rest then why ride on high horses and claim to be different and holy than rest?
PTI can ride the high horse because unlike the God Father and his entire family who is corrupt all the way from top to bottom, Imran isnt. Yes he has many shortcomings and one of those are that he often speaks without giving much thought but Imran has yet to gain power, other than KPK he is not even leader of the opposition. So you cannot compare him with somebody who is in power since 87 apart from 99 to 2007 when Musharraf took over, has been in center the third time and still there is not an iota of improvement other than in their personal assets which have multiplied ten folds. There isnt a single hospital where they can get treated themselves. For that they need to go to London. Who cannot celebrate eid with their own people and who take people from every other party they can think off. The link is mentioned above of the people who nawaz has taken.
 
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All i can think of is hitting my head to a wall because apparently i am talking to one.

This is what you said Punjab government plan to have burn unit in every district of Punjab in 2 years. Now I have a simple question for you, what has happened in the last 8 years? The link that you mentioned keeps talking about how we plan this and how we plan that. What has N league really accomplished in this regard?
Moreover I gave you a link that says only 4 out of 6 burn units are active because you claimed there are 8 or 9 working. I said back it up with a link. I am still waiting on that.

And why do you keep bringing PTI? This is the first time for PTI in any province and they have many short comings of their own, i dont doubt that but i am willing to give the same benefit of doubt to PML as well but wait, PML is in power in Punjab alone for the past 8 years and since 1992 even if we skip Musharraf's time. 4 Years now in center 3rd time as PM of Pakistan. How are they both comparable? Because i fail to see the logic here.

Here is list of 9 burn units working. Now I don't expect KP to have same number of units but at least 1? Nope

PTI is busy planting trees which no one can count.
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