Hyderabad: Medical colleges alumni set up public hospital in Old City
Hyderabad: Helping Hand Foundation and AMPI-USA, a charitable organisation run by the alumni of Osmania Medical College and Gandhi Medical College, have set up a 20-bed hospital for the treatment of tropical and infectious diseases, along with a five-bed emergency casualty department at a mosque in Shaheennagar.
An 11-year-old daughter of a single mother from Ghousenagar was one of the first patients to get admitted and was treated for viral hepatitis and urinary tract infection for free at the facility.
The 2,000-sq. ft facility has been established on the first floor of the mosque. AMPI has donated $100,000 and will sponsor the operational costs. The centre has an oxygen pipeline, para monitors, defibrillators and will be running 24X7. It can even handle an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack).
The centre has treated over 125 patients free, Mujtaba Hasan Askari of Helping Hand Foundation, said in a statement. It saves around Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 per day per bed for poor patients who are mostly daily wage earners and migrant workers.
The centre was inaugurated by Dr Zainab Baig, secretary, Board of AMPI-USA and an alumnus of Osmania Medical College, in the presence of Habeeb Aqueel, president of the mosque and member of the Jamiat Ahle Hadees.
