By TCN News,
New Delhi : New Delhi: Alshifa Multi Speciality Hospital has been inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Sunday, November 20, at Jamia Nagar, New Delhi. In her inaugural speech, she appreciated the efforts of Human Welfare Foundation (HWF), the umbrella body of Vision 2016 program in general and the hospital project in specific, which puts forward the concept of quality and affordable health care for all.
Dikshit said the project is a land mark initiative fort the people of Okhla. Expressing her long desire for establishing a maternity hospital in Jamia Nagar, she said, it was not executed due to non availability of land. She also offered to make available land to Human Welfare Foundation to start one. She further said that the government can join hands with HWF for efforts in capacity building and human resource development.
Prof. K. A. Siddique Hassan, secretary general of Human Welfare Foundation said that the hospital will be a helping hand for the needy. He claimed that it solve the problem of non-availability of quality and affordable health care in the area.
Al Shifa hospital has specialised departments for general medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, gynaecology, paediatrics and physiotherapy. It has a bed capacity of 36 and will be upgraded to 150 shortly. The hospital will soon have two more specialised departments – eye and dental. Medical laboratory, radiology, ultra sound scanning, spirometry and ECG are available in the hospital.