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[KMMalik]

Designed by: N/A
Status: Under Construction
Date of Commencement: June 2010
Date of Completion: June 2012
Developers: Government of Punjab.
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Building Style: Neo-Classical Architecture
Building Type: Public
Building Usage: Hospital
Beds : 270
Floors Above Ground: 2
Floors Under Ground: N/A
Hospital Floors: 3
Parking Floors: N/A
Location: Rawal Road, Rawalpindi, Punjab

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Edited by Tekno Arkitect, 21 June 2012 - 03:21 PM.
Info Updated!

[KMMalik]

Published in Sept, 2010

Construction of Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology has been stopped on orders of PAF for it was started without any NOC. The Institute is being constructed parallel to PAF base, the reason why PAF has interrupted as the area is considered sensitive.
According to sources, a 4 billion PKR project to construct a 250-bed hospital was given to Allied Engineers. Punjab Govt., until now, has paid 500 million PKR to the construction company. Secretary Health Punjab, Fawad Hassan was appointed Project Director of the Institute.

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[KMMalik]

Published in April, 2011

Rs. 940m Pindi Institute of Cardiology in final stage.


The construction of the 270-bed Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology is in its final phase and the project will be completed in a record time. The project, approved in October 2009, was launched in June 2010. The building cost is set at Rs 940 million. The purchase of equipment is under process.
The estimated cost of medical equipment is Rs 1124.367 million. It would be a state of the art cardiology centre where facilities of Cardiac Surgery, Peads Cardiology/Surgery, Angiography and Radiology would be provided.

[KMMalik]

RAWALPINDI, April 18, 2011 (Balochistan Times): The under-construction Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) would be functional for the treatment of heart patients of Rawalpindi and the adjoining area from July this year. The construction of the hospital was inaugurated by Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif on November 6, 2009 which will be completed in a record time before the end of current financial year, MNA, Muhammad Hanif Abbassi said on Sunday. He said that 272-bed hospital is being constructed over 80 kanal of land located near RMC Staff Colony, Rawal Road here. The total cost of the cardiac institute is Rs.2.6 billion, he told in an interview. Hanif Abbassi said after the completion, its major services will include emergency cardiac service, non-invasive cardiology, interventional cardiology, Paediatric Cardiology, CCUU and Intermediate CCU, Cardiac Surgery, surgical ICU and and High Despondency Unit, paediatric cardiac surgery, nuclear cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation. With completion of a heart hospital, the poor patients who could not bear the high cost of this disease will be able to get treatment of their disease. Responding to a question, he informed that free food is being provided to patients and their attendants admitted in Holy Family Hospital, Benazir Bhutto Hospital and District Headquarters Hospital at a cost of Rs.2.5 million per month. We are spending Rs.2.5 million per month on providing free food to the patients and their attendants on daily basis with the cooperation of some philanthropists and people belonging to affluent class, he added. Hanif Abbassi said most of the poor patients knock the door of these hospitals for their treatment and they even dont have money to purchase the medicines. Keeping in view their problems, we contacted some philanthropists and devised a mechanism under which they are being provided free food, he added.

[KMMalik]

RAWALPINDI, May 21: Punjab government set another deadline for the completion of Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) and asked the local administration to complete the construction work by the end of June.

The construction work on Rs2.6 billion worth of the project is almost one year behind schedule. The 270-bed RIC project was approved in October 2009 and the construction work was started in June 2010 and it was supposed to be completed by June 2011.

While inaugurating the construction work, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif had promised that the project would be completed in a year but the slow pace of work made it impossible.

The sources told Dawn the Punjab Health Department had failed to purchase the equipment and recruit employees and doctors for the hospital. “The construction work is slow as the local authorities have failed to construct the sewerage system in the building and the City District Government Rawalpindi (CDGR) has sought Rs80 million from the provincial government for the purpose,” they said.

Sources further said the government released Rs20 million for the construction of sewerage system at the hospital and promised to provide the remaining amount during next fiscal year 2012-13. After receiving the funds, Commissioner Imdadullah Bosal called a meeting of district officials on Monday to review the progress of the construction work. MNA Hanif Abbasi informed the meeting that the provincial government wanted to complete the project by June 30.

Newly appointed RIC Medical Superintendent Dr Shoaib Khan informed the meeting that for the convenience of the patients and their attendants, four more lifts would be installed in the hospital and the work would be started on May 28.

He said the installation of air conditioning system would be completed and the natural gas and electricity connections would also be obtained soon as the administration had already submitted applications in this regard. The commissioner directed the local administration to speed up the work to meet the deadline.

[KMMalik]

RAWALPINDI, June 13: The Punjab government has given the under-construction girls’ hostel of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC) at Rawal Road to Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) to accommodate its doctors.

It was decided in a meeting held on the RMC premises under the chairmanship of Provincial Secretary Health Capt. (retired) Arif Nadeem. The meeting was attended by Commissioner Rawalpindi Division Imdadullah Bosal, RMC Principal Dr. Mussadiq Khan, Executive District Officer (EDO) Health Dr. Zafar Iqbal Gondal and other senior officials of district administration and RMC.
Sources privy to the meeting told Dawn that the provincial government missed another deadline of June 30 to start its much-hyped Rs2.6 billion project of Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC). Now July 15 was set for making the RIC functional due to the late arrival of machinery and delay in the recruitment of doctors and staff to man the hospital.
They said that the recruitment would start soon however, the provincial health department recommended that RMC Principal Dr. Mussadiq Khan should be appointed as acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the institute.
However, the sources said that the provincial government was negotiating with a general, who had recently retired from Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC), for this post. They said if the retired general was appointed as CEO of the institute, the Punjab government would go against its own decision that the government job would not be given to any retired army officer.
They said that the provincial government had set the deadline to start the hospital from June 30 but it failed to recruit the staff.
They said that Provincial Secretary Health Capt. (retired) Arif Nadeem asked the RMC administration that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had vacated the building of RMC girls’ hostel and there was no logic that the RMC should be given under-construction hostel building adjacent to RIC. They said that the secretary health directed the district building department to make proper arrangements for separate accommodations of female and male doctors in the under-construction hostel and also directed to complete the work within three weeks.
During the meeting, it was decided that the Outdoor Patients Department (OPD) would start working from July 15 and admission of patients would start in August. The sources said that apparently it would be difficult to meet the new deadline as there was a lot of construction work pending in the hospital including laying of sewerage lines, entrance gate, fixture of machinery as it would take more than three months.
Meanwhile, Secretary Health Arif Nadeem also chaired the meeting of Board of Management of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC). He instructed the RMC principal to improve the fire safety measures in the three government-run hospitals.
He informed the board that the provincial government would provide one C.T. Scan machine for Rawalpindi’s hospitals.
He said that the RMC administration demanded two C.T. Scan machines and a MRI machine but the funds were not available to meet all the demands.

[Tekno Arkitect]

Thanks for updating this topic. I came to know about this project some years back when it was talked about on papers.

Can you add the google images (to the 1st post) where exactly it is being executed.

[KMMalik]

Once you asked me to first save pictures etc. on either Photobucket or Urbanpk Website. Where and how can I do this on Urbanpk site?

[KMMalik]

[KMMalik]

State-of-the-art Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology starts functioning.

 

Sunday, February 03, 2013 - Rawalpindi—Equipped with state of the art machinery, Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) has started functioning with successful angiography of three patients on Saturday. The RIC will provide free treatment facility in emergency and to the poor patients.

Situated at Rawal Road and completed at a cost of Rs 2.8 billion in a record period of two years, the RIC is spread over 80 kanal of land and will have the facility to provide treatment facilities to 400 patients at a time. The RIC has the largest and modern emergency with 48 beds. Briefing media persons on Saturday, Executive Director Major General Retd. Dr Azhar Mahmood Kayani said fifty specialist doctors will provide treatment to the patients round-the-clock. He said the RIC has facility to check one thousand patients daily but at present 200 patients are being checked. He said machinery for the hospital has been imported from Germany and Japan
and beds from Italy.

Dr Azhar Mahmood Kayani who was accompanied by MNA Hanif Abbasi and Medical Superintendent Dr Muhammad Shoaib said the hospital has all the laboratory tests facilities like Eco, blood test and X-ray. He said a most modern X-ray system has been installed in the hospital where instead of X-ray film, the X-ray would be taken through CR system and the report would go to the laptop or computer of the doctors simultaneously for further treatment.

Major General Kayani said that prominent heart surgeon Dr Hasnat would soon come to Pakistan from London to serve in the hospital along with his team.

He said it is the only hospital in the twin cities where the emergency would have 48 beds, 26 ventilators and five CT Angiography machines. In addition to Rawalpindi division, people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan would also benefit from the treatment facilities in the hospital.

He said data of all the patients would be kept in the computer so that whenever they come again, the whole data is available. He said the hospital would have facility to place stent in blocked
artilleries as well that would cost between Rs 80,000 to Rs 150,000.

[KMMalik]

pix in January 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Zain Abbass]

Personally not a fan of neo classical architecture...