The Children’s Heart Hospital & Research Institute

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After completion of preliminary preparations, the Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute is now in the pipeline, Pakistan Today has learnt. It will be Pakistan’s first ever heart hospital for children. It will be the result of the endeavours of a team of philanthropists and experts who, without depending on government’s assistant, have taken up the good cause. The hospital will provide cure to children born with heart defects. The Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute promises hope to children with curable heart conditions including congenital heart diseases.
The project is being run by some of the finest specialised heart doctors in the country. Their mission is to build a state-of-the-art trust hospital and research centre exclusively for the children. They include Prof Masood Sadiq, head of Children’s Hospital Lahore’s Paediatric Cardiology, Prof Shakeel Qureshi, Head of Service of Paediatric Cardiology, Guy’s and St Thomas (NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Asim Khan, assistant professor, paediatric cardiac surgeon at Children’s Hospital, Dr S Salman A Shah, assistant professor, paediatric cardiac surgeon at Children’s Hospital, Dr Najam Hayder, assistant professor, paediatric cardiologist at Children’s Hospital, Dr Asif-Ur-Rehman, assistant professor, paediatric cardiologist at Punjab Institute of Cardiology and Farhan Ahmad, a renowned businessman.
The congenital heart disease (CHD) is referred to as hearts having structural defects from birth. It can involve the interior walls of the heart, the valves inside the heart, the arteries and veins that carry blood to the heart or out to the body. The CHD can range from simple defects with no symptoms to complex defects.
Surprisingly, the ratio of children with CHD in Pakistan is alarming as approximately 1 out of every 100 children suffers from it. The Children’s Hospital Lahore conducts over 400 surgeries every year and currently there are 3,000 children awaiting their turn. It usually takes about 8 years for an infant to get operated for this disease since the day it is registered.
Hence people with sound financial resources prefer to travel to India or to the West for a surgery and those with meagre income are left with no options but to wait for years to get routine treatment. So far more than 1,400 people have joined The Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute Facebook group and donations are pouring in from abroad.
Currently the project includes a hospital with 70-75 beds. 25 beds in the ICU, 20 beds in CICU, 5 beds in CICU, 20 floor beds, 2 Operating Rooms, 1 Angiography Suite, 2 Echo Suites, 10-20 Consultation offices. Other than that the plan is to establish Radiology facilities, CT scanner, Central Supply (CSSD), Pharmacy, Central hospital laboratory, Cafeteria and an Institute for teaching and training of medical and paramedical staff.
The aim of the Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute is to build a non-profit (Trust Hospital) to serve the needy and underprivileged families and to function as a tertiary referral centre for children from other institutions, cities, provinces and even neighbouring countries.
The Childrens Heart Hospital and Research Institute plans to operate 1500 children every year lowering down waiting times.
The readers, for further details and donations, can log on to Facebook and search for The Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute.

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18 COMMENTS

  1. great effort . all we need is to spread this message in our social circle domestic and abroad.

  4. Asalam Walaikum

    Dear Sir,

    My Son have a small hole in his heart. He is only 20 days old. Kindly let me know if there is any serious problem. Please reply me at [email protected]. As per doctors, 90% new born babies have same problem.
    Your Prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
    Best Regards
    Faisal

    • Hole is the heart is a very broad term. There are holes in upper chambers of newborn heart (100%) called "Atrium" which close in 2-3 months or sooner. So no need to be worried about it. Kids who still have it and they are older (a year or two) may need to see a pediatric cardiologist. So no need to be ablarmed at this point.

  5. in my neigbor a 5 year old child he has a some defect in his hole and his family is poor they can’t afford expensive of this problem. so please do some thing for this boy.
    please let me know.
    0331-5264252

  9. sir the age of my son fahad mustufa is only three days. atfer birth his doctor take eco test and dignose that he has multiple compiication iin his heart his veins are merge which carry dirty and claen blood the right side chamber is not working proper sir now he is in cardio hospital in child heart peads icu on oxygen but doctor are saying u may discharge him now because we dont have medicine and treatment for this child u may bring him india .sir i am tooooo poor i hardly bear the taxi karaya what should i do doctor aasman pe khuda or zameen pe ap hamary madagar ho rem jejie plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  10. Dear don't worry just trust at Allah and don't beg from peoples. Jiss Allah nay Diya hay wo behter janta hay kis ko kitna zinda rakhna hay.

  11. first of all many thanks for all doctors who invented the prevention and treatments for heart surgery with latest technology. I have seen many heart patients who need prevention for this. They are suffering from so much pain, specially children. Hope this will give the new life to children and others also.

  12. I am the father of 9 month old daughter. When she was born we found her patient of Aortopulmonary Window. After 6 week the doctors of children hospital operate her. Now she is 9 month old and she is Alhamdullilah complete ok. Allah Pak key mehrbany aur madad say.

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