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A medical city to be introduced in Sector I-7 in Islamabad as NUMS aims to accelerate healthcare

To ensure a paramount progression in the healthcare ecosystem in Pakistan, Lt. General Nigar Johar, Surgeon General of DGMS (IS), proposed the concept of a Medical City to Vice Chancellor of the National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed in order to accelerate healthcare in Pakistan.

Despite of the COVID pandemic, the healthcare deteriorates by the minute everyday. As a result, the country remains in its current rank of 122nd out of 190 countries in the healthcare sector, in accordance to the report of the World Health Organization.

NUMS along with the SG of DGMS aim to increase the rank in the healthcare sector by turning sector I-7 into a Medical City with an estimated cost of 370,000 billion PKR which is equivalent to nearly 2.4 billion in USD.

This medical city, powered by NUMS, will be funded through public private partnership which includes foreign direct investment and other sources involved. According to the General Surgeon, the Medical City would be completed in four phases spreading over 25 years.

The first phase of the city is expected to be completed in five years with over 500 beds aligned with proper medical and nursing facilities. The second phase would then be completed in 7 years with 1000 more beds and infrastructure added. Third phase, expected to be completed in also 7 years, would include 1000 additional beds and hospitals and the final phase would be completed in 6 years adding another 1500 beds with more medical facilities involved.

This Medical City aims to provide healthcare over to 12 million people of the Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Norther Areas.

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