List of Top 5 Government Hospitals in Karachi

Health is one of the major issues of the Pakistani community. Though the region is rich with a number of natural blessings, there are some serious health issues faced by the residents of the region. List of Top 5 Government Hospitals in Karachi.

Health is some of the most ignored sectors of Pakistan. However, in recent years some major steps are taken to promote better health facilities in all the major and minor cities of Pakistan. Karachi is one of the biggest cities and capital of Pakistan at the same time. It is located in the province of Sindh that is one of the most suffered areas of Pakistan, in terms of health. Karachi is well served by a number of hospitals to fulfill the medical needs of the people of the area. Below are mentioned some of the well equipped and high-quality service providers in Karachi.

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List of Top 5 Government Hospitals in Karachi

Some of the best hospitals in Lahore Includes:

1 – Agha Khan University Hospital
2 – Jinnah Hospital Karachi
3 – Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine
4 – Sindh Government Hospital
5 – Civil Hospital

1 – Agha Khan University Hospital:

Agha Khan is in first position in our List of top 5 government hospitals in Karachi. One of the top rated hospital in Karachi with an appreciated training institute. It fulfills the demands of higher international standards of health care. It provides some of the best staff and equipment facilities in Pakistan. Key features of the hospital include more than 500 operational beds, almost 122 private air condition, and around 117 semi-private air conditioned rooms with 251 general wards. There are above 50 special care beds and 11 main operating theaters and 11 operating theaters and 4 operating theater in the surgical day care area and one operating theater in gyne.

Mission

The Aga Khan University Hospital is a private, not for profit, organization with a mission to:

• Provide exemplary care to all patients irrespective of race, religion or background
• Develop and test innovations in health care, education and research
• Support the teaching and research missions of the University
• Contribute to the development of a system of health care encompassing primary, secondary and tertiary care, and not geographically confined to the Main Hospital Campus facility
• Provide access for needy patients who may not, on account of financial difficulties, be able to afford to pay for their care, and to reach out to those who might not otherwise present themselves at the Hospital
• Develop new services in response to public expectations on an economically viable and sustainable basis
• Implement strategies that would demonstrate the ability of the institution to be self-sustaining in a developing nation environment

2 – Jinnah Hospital Karachi:

Jinnah Hospital is in second position in our List of top 5 government hospitals in Karachi. Jinnah hospital is one of the most visited hospitals of Karachi that cares for thousands of people each day. The rush to the hospital is a symbol of the hospital’s efficiency and the good quality of health care services provided by the competent staff of the hospital. The hospital is owned by the federal government.

The key features of the hospital include about 1185 beds with 28 different clinical departments and 11 non-clinical departments.

The journey of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) started in 1930 in Medical Corps Hospital, meant for medical aid to military personnel exclusively. In 1942 it was re-named as the British General Hospital and remained as such till 1947; a 100 bedded hospital with all basic necessary facilities.

Father of Nation

Quaid e Azam,Muhammad Ali Jinnah After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the father of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah was requested to grant approval to lend his name to the hospital, which he graciously accorded, with the condition that it be opened for the public. Thus the Medical Corps Hospital/British General Hospital was named as Jinnah Central Hospital (JCH).

Being the capital city of Pakistan at that time, Karachi became home to thousands of Federal Government employees, who settled here along with their families. The Government of Pakistan decided to establish JCH as a well equipped hospital to cater for their medical needs, as the existing Civil Hospital was inadequate for this purpose.

The opening ceremony was a grand affair. The first class of students was inducted on 1st June, 1959. In 1963, the amalgamation of BMSI and all units of JCH led to the creation of JPMC with the combined administration headed by a Director.

JPMC, thus established, comprised of a cluster of buildings spread over 148 acres. The prime purpose of this institution, in addition to treating patients, became higher medical education, training and research. Thereafter, with the passage of time, more buildings were constructed to cater to the growing needs of various evolving specialties.

It can now proudly claim to be the biggest and the best equipped public sector hospital in Pakistan, employing highly qualified staff in numerous specialties, ready to render quality health care services to the ailing. In the process, JPMC also imparts high quality training to medical graduates, nurses and technicians and undertakes meaningful research in clinical and basic medical sciences.

JPMC Mission

• Improve education and healthcare in Pakistan by imparting quality education and care.
• Promotion of research and generation of knowledge and skill development.
• Provide quality healthcare to all irrespective of ability to pay.
• Explore avenues for resource generation.

3 – Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine

Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy is in third position in our List of top 5 government hospitals in Karachi. In view of the large number of poor cancer patients of Karachi and Rural areas of Sindh and Baluchistan being referred for management of cancer and allied diseases at the Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine KIRAN, an active welfare society is essentially required.

Although this institute provides specialized consultations and treatment facilities like radiations Oncology, endoscopies and comprehensive laboratory facilities.

However it is very difficult for this institute to provide anti-cancer drugs and other medicine like pain killers due to paucity of funds.

In most of the cases, poor cancer patients are unable to go with the financial constraints and they are compelled to discontinue the treatment.

Keeping in view this grove situation and poverty of the people a consensus opinion arose amongst like minded people that a welfare society for the benefit of the cancer patients, attending this institute, it was brought into being and thus KIRAN PATIENTS WELFARE SOCIETY (kpws) was founded.

This society for the welfare of cancer patients at KIRAN hospital was created on 30th January 2003 so as to serve the sufferer, help the poor, and share with the less privileged and keep credit with the creator (the Almighty Allah).

Mission

With the sole motivation of pleasing Allah, the vision of the Kpws is to further the Islamic values of service to humanity at large. KPWS will contribute to its Vision by exclusively focusing on providing excellence driven (as stipulated in the Islamic concept of Ihsaan), comprehensive, free of cost health care facilities to poor and needy patients of KIRAN. Kpws will work within the limits of SHARIAH and will be funded by donations, Zakat and Khairat. Kpws will take all the measures which contribute to the aforesaid Vision may it be research, education and training.

Aims and objectives

• Welfare of the cancer patients
• Management / Rehabilitation of the cancer patients
• To provide diagnostic facilities to the cancer patients
• To educate masses for early detection of the cancer patients
• To create the awareness of the cancer in the masses
• Provision of the pain killers/ other therapeutics requisites
• Ambulatory facilities for the patients
• Development and placement of human resources
• To raise funds/sources for the welfare of the cancer patients
• To support/cooperate with other welfare agencies

4 – Sindh Government Hospital

Introduction

Sindh Government Hospital is in fourth position in our List of top 5 government hospitals in Karachi.Health Department The Provincial Health Ministry is a standard body for providing Medical Education Training & Employment. Its Mission Statement is:-

Mission Statement

The overall vision is based on “Health for All“ the new Health Policy aims to implement this strategy of protecting peoples against Hazardous Diseases, promoting public health, upgrading curative health facilities, enhancing equity, efficiency and effectiveness in health sector.

The Sindh Department of Health currently has more than 14,000 Doctors 2,000 Nurses and over 12,000 paramedics serving all over the province. The province has two medical universities; one each at Karachi and Jamshoro, and three medical colleges; one each in Sukkur, Nawabshah and Larkana, 12 Nursing School, 10 Midwifery Schools and 5 Public Health School for lady health visitors.

The Rural facilities are usually ill equipped, under-staffed, and under-utilized.

Beside they facilitates:

• Control of Communicable diseases:-
• Tuberculosis
• Vaccine-preventable illnesses and Polio eradication
• Malaria and Leishmaniosis
• Blood Safety and Control of HIV / AIDS
• Hepatitis B and C
• Control of Non-communicable diseases
• Cardiac disease, diabetes, Cancer, Mental Illness, Genetic disorders, Snake bite and Dog bite
• Prevention of Blindness (Vision 2020) Program in Sindh
• Take measures to implement Better Maternal and Child Health
• To counter Malnutrition
• To ensure Road Safety

5 – Civil Hospital

Civil Hospital is in fifth position in our List of top 5 government hospitals in Karachi.The Civil Hospital Karachi was founded in 1898 in the wake of a third pandemic of Bubonic Plague on the one hand, and the platinum jubilee of Queen Victoria on the other. The pandemic would kill at least an estimated 10 million people in India alone over a period of 20 years. It is important to mention the status of Karachi at that time. Being the port city, Karachi was the business, military and nerve center of Sindh right from the start. 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, while the entire building is heritage-protected by the provincial Department of Culture allowing for repairs and renovation but eschewing any structural change in its original design.

ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Karachi became the capital of the new state, both the medical college and its teaching hospital came under the jurisdiction of the provincial government of Sindh (or West Pakistan from 1955–1970). Initially after independence, Col Aziz K M Khan, Principal of Dow Medical College was made administrator of the Civil Hospital Karachi. However in 1949, the post was bifurcated in view of its growing workload, and Dr Ali Ahmed S Kazi was named as the first Medical Superintendent of the hospital.

He established a system of good governance in the hospital and was assisted by a team of senior academicians and hospital administrators prior to his posting as Director Health Services Sindh a few years later. Over the years a few other administrators such as Prof Mahmud Ali Shah and Prof S H Rahimtoola were assigned both the positions of Principal Dow Medical College and Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital Karachi in an effort to better coordinate the functions on the campus.

However after the up-gradation of the Dow Medical College into the Dow University of Health Sciences a few years ago, there is a clear cut demarcation between the hospital’s academic and administrative responsibilities. Prof M Saeed Quraishy is the current Medical Superintendent of Civil Hospital Karachi.

SERVICES

Initially established in 1898 with 250 beds to provide basic health facilities, the hospital has expanded considerably and has been totally transformed over the years. Its 1900 beds are located in 34 departments, with over a dozen major operation theaters and a huge out patient’s attendance. Greater stress is being laid on public-private partnerships and preventive work notably in the Paediatrics department to avert unnecessary infant and child deaths due to pneumonia, malnutrition, diarrhea or vaccine-preventable illnesses.

Measures are also in place to prevent and control major communicable diseases such as Tuberculosis, Malaria, viral Hepatitis B & C and HIV/AIDS, in addition to non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancers having a huge burden in Pakistan. Today as Karachi is a sprawling mega-city with a population estimated at 18 million divided into 18 major towns, the Civil Hospital Karachi lives on to tell two tales in the same city.

The services of this tertiary care institution have kept in line with the latest technological advances as far as that is compatible with the situation in a low-income developing country. 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.