No extraordinary burden of patients reported at allied hospitals on Eid days

Rawalpindi:The three teaching hospitals in town did not receive any extraordinary burden of patients at their emergency departments during Eid holidays and the functioning of the hospitals remained smooth as no untoward incident was reported in town in the last six days, from ‘Chand raat’ to Friday.

The number of trauma cases reported at the three hospitals was a little higher in the last one week mainly because of road traffic accidents involving wheelie activities but according to the hospitals’ administrations, the influx was manageable.

The staff including doctors, nurses, paramedics and general staff performed their duties well during Eid days, said Principal Rawalpindi Medical College and In-charge Allied Hospitals Professor Dr. Jahangir Sarwar Khan while talking to ‘The News’.

It is important that the outpatient departments and main operation theatres at the three teaching hospitals including Holy Family Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and Rawalpindi Teaching Hospital were not operational on Eid days and both the routine OPD and emergency cases were received by the emergency departments at the allied hospitals. The number of patients reaching emergency departments of the three hospitals on Eid days was a little extra as compared to routine mainly because the majority of the private clinics and hospitals did not operate during Eid holidays.

According to the hospitals’ administrations, well over 50 per cent of all patients reaching hospitals on Eid days were with mild to moderate complaints and were managed by the medicine departments of the hospitals while less than 15 per cent of the cases were requiring surgical procedures. Around 35 per cent of the total cases reported during Eid holidays were managed by paediatrics and gynaecology departments.