Specialist care
- Medical and allied specialties
- Surgical and allied specialties
- Operating theatres
- Diagnostic facilities
- Blood bank
ABOUT THE INSTITUTION
Overview
The Children’s Hospital is a specialist pediatric component of PIMS, providing preventive, curative, emergency and tertiary referral care for children. It also supports the training of child health professionals.
History
The Children’s Hospital was conceived as an institute of excellence in the early 1980s. Japan, through JICA, approved and supported the project in 1982. Construction by Tobishima Corporation of Tokyo began in March 1983 and was completed in March 1985. The hospital was handed over to Pakistan’s Ministry of Health in May 1985.
A new outpatient department was built between 1991 and 1992. The hospital covers approximately 179,600 square feet and is a symbol of cooperation between Pakistan and Japan.
230Beds
1985Hospital handed over to Pakistan
Objectives
- Provide preventive and curative child healthcare
- Serve as a tertiary referral centre for the northern areas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and northern Punjab
- Train paramedics and other child health workers
- Support disease prevention and the development of pediatric services
Clinical services
Emergency & critical care
- Accident & Emergency services
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Isolation facilities
Reported daily workload
400Average outpatient visits
30Average inpatient admissions
15Average surgical procedures
100Average Accident & Emergency visits