Booni Medical Center providing good health Facilities.

Dear Editor,

Assalamualikum,

The health Facility is the basic right of a citizen from the government, but it seems not available in the government hospitals especially in the remote areas of our country.

I work for the ministry of health of Saudi Arabia, here I have seen that the government has opened hospitals with all facilities in every district and cities. There is quality hospital and ambulance services in all part of the country for its citizens. If some citizen of the country wants his treatment out of the country the government is responsible to facilitate him and sends a doctor with patient to the country where this citizen wants to be shifted. There are medical systems equipped with all critical care staff and life saving medicines they transfer the critically ill patient with life saving medical equipment like ventilator, balloon pump etc.
When any patients gets Heart attack (MI) the treatment is provided within 1-2 hours using angiography angioplasty. There are facilities of primary angioplasty 24 hours a day. Thus the doctors save the patient heart from more damage and this procedure is free of cost for its citizen. Here the government of health arranges trainings for its staff to make more skillful.

This seems opposite in our country. In the winter when our Chitral is full of snow if any critically ill patient comes to the government hospital he will see there the doctors only. These doctors can prescribe him some medicine but how they will deal this patient without any essential health care equipment.

I do not hesitate to say that the Booni Medical center is the unique health Center in the region that is providing basic health facilities to Patients of region 24 hours a day and 365 days a year using what ever resources available. Inshallah we will see many more facilities there in the next coming years.

Thanks Booni Medical Center

Shams Ali Shah
Ministry of Health
Saudi Arabia Alqasim Region