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LAHORE, July 2 (APP): More than 3000 patients are
getting facilities of medical check-up and laboratory
tests daily at the newly opened OPD block of Services
Hospital Lahore.
The three-storey block of OPD has various departments
where specialist doctors are available to examin the
patients visiting hospital from across the province.
The new block of OPD also has modern pathology and
radiology laboratories where people can avail diagnostic
services under one roof.
The OPD has a seven-storey building, out of which
3 floors are made functional while remaining building
would be handed over to the hospital administration
within next few months.
Hospital sources told APP here Sunday that Punjab
Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif will formally
inaugurate the OPD block after its completion.
The hospital administraion converted the old building
of OPD into the store for medicine and other medical materials.
AMS OPD Dr Fouzia Saeed said that a shuttle service has
also been launched to shift serious patients from new OPD
to the emergency department. She added that after being fully
functional, Services hospital’s OPD will be made a role model
in terms of medical services for other hospitals.a