Services Hospital
| Services Hospital | |
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| Government of Punjab | |
Outpatient department of the hospital
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| Geography | |
| Location | Main Jail Road, Opposite Race Course Park, Lahore., Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Coordinates | 31°32′29″N 74°19′59″E / 31.541275°N 74.333054°ECoordinates: 31°32′29″N 74°19′59″E / 31.541275°N 74.333054°E |
| Organisation | |
| Funding | Public |
| Hospital type | University, Teaching |
| Affiliated university | Services Institute of Medical Sciences, UHS and CPSP |
| Patron | Hamid Mahmood |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Helipad | No |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.sims.edu.pk/ |
| Lists | Hospitals in Pakistan |
Services Hospital is located on Jail Road Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan just next to the race course park and is the teaching hospital of Services Institute of Medical Sciences(SIMS). It is recognized by the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council, for under-graduate as well as by College of Physicians and Surgeons for post graduate training.
Initially established in 1958 with 60 beds to provide basic health facilities to the government employees, the hospital has expanded considerably and has been totally transformed over the years. This change started when it was declared as a teaching hospital attached to AIMC in 1977. Today its 1196 beds are located in 31 departments, with 27 major operation theaters and 8 minor OTs and an out patient attendance of 700 patients (on an average) per day. Fiscal constraints have led to seeking out alternative avenues of funding including philanthropic support. Changing the emphasis to preventive work is encouraged notably in the Paediatrics department to avert unnecessary infant and child deaths due to pneumonia, malnutrition, diarrhea or vaccine-preventable illnesses. Major effort is made to control major communicable diseases such as Tuberculosis, Malaria, viral Hepatitis B & C, HIV/AIDS and Dengue with the help of department of infectious diseases headed by Prof. Sobia Qazi (Diplomat American Board of Infectious diseases). Attempts are being made to keep the services of this tertiary care institution in line with the latest technological advances while keeping the demands within the tight fiscal resources. If financial autonomy is given in the true sense, service delivery is likely to improve further. Sophisticated laboratory and radiographical procedures, investigations and examinations are performed totally free for all the patients admitted in the hospital and in A&E department.
Efficiency of an organization improves in tandem with the improvement of infra-structure and of the working environment. Although since 2004 numerous efforts have resulted in
The aging infra-structure remains severely overstretched resulting in electrical overload and fire accidents.
IT is the key for effective, accurate and timely collection of data which is valuable and critical for information dependent decision making and administrative surveillance of work flow and personnel. The IT infrastructure developments during last five years are as under: Laying of fiber-optic back bone for connecting widely dispersed departments with heavy band width requirement for example Radiology imaging. Provision of dispersed servers with triple tier backup and redundancies, an essential requirement for disaster management and data recovery - an essential prerequisite while providing time critical health services. Imparting IT training of all the administrative staff to achieve proficiency in IT intensive management environment and use of HIMS tools for data collection and decision making. IT training of all para-medics and nursing staff to improve efficiency and organizational control. Currently, all doctors, para-medics and nurses are fully trained in computer operation and can efficiently operate Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) – developed and deployed by a team of three developers headed by Prof. Faisal Masud.
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