Health Desk:
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Chief Minister Balochistan Mir Abdul Quddoos Bizenjo directed the establishment of burn units in all District Headquarters (DHQ) across Balochistan. This will be an important development to increase the treatment facilities in the public interest.
The provincial health department has established a 20-bed general ward, a 5-bed ICU with modern facilities, a burn unit, and a training center for the treatment of burn patients in Civil Hospital Quetta for the first time.
While in the divisional headquarters and district headquarters of the province a training center has been started in this sector with a huge amount of money to build a burn ward with five to ten beds.
The following facilities will be provided in this department: Any accidental burn patient in the civil hospital after being examined in the dressing room of the casualty department of the burn unit will be provided with bandages and other supplies.
If the patient has to be admitted, then only specific patients will be admitted, in this regard, the Balochistan government will bear the daily expenses of up to one lakh rupees.
After the patient enters the ward, he will be treated in the presence of trained young doctors and nurses, including various operations. Trainees of all Divisional Headquarters Hospitals and District Headquarters Hospitals of Balochistan will be trained in the Burn Training Center.
In this way, after training the staff of 40 district head hospitals and divisional headquarters hospitals, for the first time, people in these areas of Balochistan will have facilities near their homes for the treatment of burn patients. The provincial government will also provide six months’ salary and medicines for the burn unit established under BRSP Zhob.
