South Waziristan, Pakistan: The recently opened Shaikha Fatima Bint Mubarak Hospital in South Waziristan has already begun to change lives there, providing advanced health-care services to the citizens, including children, women and elderly people.
The hospital was inaugurated last July, in implementation of the directives of UAE President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, to provide humanitarian and developmental assistance and support to the health sector in Pakistan.
It was also achieved by the follow-up of Shaikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
Tipped as one of the of the development projects that have profoundly impacted the lives of people in South Wazirstan, the Shaikha Fatima Hospital provides daily services to 300 patients in the Emergency Unit and to over 200 children at the Preventive Medicine Section to offer treatment and polio vaccines.
Built as part of the UAE Pakistan Assistance Project, UAE PAP, the $5-million hospital sits on a 4,330-square-metre plot and has various facilities, including an outpatient clinic, gynaecology, maternity, paediatrics and emergency departments. The hospital boasts a kidney dialysis centre, infantile inoculation, operation theatres, admission wards and intensive care units.
