ABU DHABI // The recently opened Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak Hospital in Pakistan’s South Waziristan region has already begun to change lives, providing advanced healthcare services to children, women and the elderly, among others.
Opened in July, the hospital was built under the directives of the President, Sheikh Khalifa, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, to provide humanitarian and developmental assistance to people in need.
Already it is providing services to 300 patients a day at its accident and emergency department and to 200 children at the preventive medicine section, where polio vaccines are among treatments offered.
Built as part of the UAE Project Assist Pakistan, the US$5 million hospital sits on a 4,330 square metre plot and has facilities including an out-patient clinic, gynaecology, maternity, paediatrics and emergency departments, state news agency Wam reported. There is also a kidney dialysis centre, operation theatres and intensive-care units.
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