Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital opens round-the-clock clinic
By Saad Ahmad

RAWALPINDI—To facilitate the people of federal capital territory Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital has opened its full-fledged eye clinic in Islamabad.
Meanwhile President of the Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital said that ourmotto is to provide the patients with our best possible eye care services. He said to achieve this objective al-Shifa is in the process to upgrade the existing Al-Shifa hospital into the centers of excellence with state of the art modern eye care facilities.
He further said that based on our experience of the past and realization of the changing scenarios and trends of the fast developing present world, Al Shifa Trust Constantly reviews, refines and reshapes itsfuture. For this a strategic plan has been made and based on this strategicplan Al-Shifa Trust is in the process to establish two more state of the art eye hospitals in the country-one in Quetta and another inMuzaffarabad.
“We want to facilitate the general public and provide the best possibleeye care services to the patients at their door step and for this reason we have decided to upgrade the Al-Shifa Trust Eye clinic atIslamabad” said the Executive Director Al-Shifa Trust Brig (R) Rizwanullah Asghar. He further said that the Al-Shifa Trust Eye hospital clinic would be equipped with state of the art eye care equipments and with a foreignqualified eye specialist doctor. He further said that in case of any major operations patients would be referred to the Al-Shifa Trust Eyehospital Rawalpindi.
At present, there are three functioning hospitals in three provinces ofPakistan (Rawalpindi, Sukkur, and Kohat) and Al-Shifa Trust is recognized internationally as a center of excellence in eye care. 4 millionpatients have been provided with state of art eye care and 400,000 have successfully undergone sight-restoring operations on average, Al-Shifa Trust Hospitals gave services to over 14,000 patients per month Said theexecutive director while giving the details. He said out of the patients treated at Al-Shifa’s eye hospitals, 70% of the patients are treated free of charge the remaining 30% are treated on subsidized and the rest on full charges.