The government-run Peshawar Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been included in the list of international standards hospitals across the globe. The PIC became Pakistan’s first public hospital to be included in the list of the hospitals providing treatment at international standard.
Spokesperson of PIC Rifat Anjum on Saturday said that PIC has been declared as per international standards after completion of an audit of the hospital by a European firm. She said that a European firm recently visited PIC to review patient care, medical equipment, employees’ rights in hospital and expressed satisfaction over the quality provision of medical treatment and quality management system of the hospital.
The Institute has now been nominated for obtaining ISO-900:2015 certificate, the spokesperson added. It is worth mentioning here that the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology has carried out medical checkups of 29000 heart patients and performed over 5000 angioplasty and angiography procedures during a short span of one year.
During the time of one year, over 200 open and close heart surgeries were performed on heart patient children, at Paediatric Cardiology, holes in the hearts of 136 children were successfully covered through device technology without open heart.
