Islamabad: The United Arab Emirates continues its strong commitment to external cooperation by providing essential humanitarian and fitness materials to countries suffering from the effect of coronavirus, COVID-19.
The Pakistani-Emirati army hospital in Pakistan’s Rawalpindi city is a brilliant example of UAE humanitarian and progression projects to combat grass-based pandemics and calamities.
In recent months, the hospital has won and provided medical remedy to more than 10,000 patients inflamed with coronavirus.
The 108 million-dollar Pakistani-Emirati army hospital built in accordance with the rules of His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan; His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces, and Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
According to Abdullah Khalifa Al Ghafli, director of the UAE’s Pakistan Assistance Program, UAEPAP, the hospital is one of the key projects recently carried out in Pakistan.
“The leaders of the United Arab Emirates have shown interest in supporting several humanitarian projects in Pakistan in many spaces of progression and humanitarianism,” he added.
He also attributed the good fortune of the hospital by helping the Pakistani government and army in the fight opposed to COVID-19 to the sensible technique of the leaders of the United Arab Emirates in solidarity with the Pakistani people.
Division general professor Salman Saleem, director of the Pakistani-Emirati army hospital, said the hospital, which was built in 2013, is one of pakistan’s largest and largest army fitness projects. The built-in medical facility also offers internships and residency education programs.
Professor Saleem said that due to the coronavirus outbreak, the hospital had been transferred to a center for the control and remedy of other inflamed people from other parts of Pakistan.
“At the end of February, we developed a strategy to deal with the pandemic and began to take all the necessary precautions, adding isolation and treatment of patients in a specially created unit,” he added.
He thanked the leaders of the United Arab Emirates for the humanitarian and progression projects in Pakistan and the structure and apparatus of rawalpindi Military Hospital.
Brigadier Dr. Shazia Nisar, head of the Department of Pathology and Epidemiology, said the hospital’s amenities and appliances helped provide medical remedies to thousands of coronavirus-infected patients.
In the last three months, the UAE sent three shipments of medical aid to Pakistan, totally weighing 18.3 tonnes, in addition to 20,000 coronavirus testing devices to help over 18,300 medical workers.
The 1,400-bed hospital can accommodate between 6,000 and 9,000 patients by day or 3 million depending on the year. It has rooms for external consultations, clinics, emergency services, pharmacies, laboratories, radiology and blood bank.
It is operated by 350 doctors, 800 nursing staff and 1,500 technical and administrative staff. The hospital was co-funded by the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development and the Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation.
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