Teaching college at Pak-China Friendship Hospital, Gwadar is in the pipeline, according to Gwadar Pro. The Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) Chairman Noor ul Haq Baloch has formally forwarded a proposal to the Chinese government to upgrade the status of the China-aided Hospital into a teaching hospital with allied facilities under CPEC phase II.

The proposal reveals that the next phase of Pak-China Friendship Hospital will include teaching hospital, nursing training centre, medical blocks, medical college, central laboratory, and other allied facilities. Given the details of the proposal, teaching hospital and the other allied facilities at Pak-China Friendship hospital Gwadar will have an estimated cost of around $100 million.

It will combine medical education, research, and patient care in a dynamic environment where the next generation of medical providers will be trained. In China-Pakistan Friendship Teaching Hospital, practitioners-in-training will gain experience in a real patient-care environment where they will be under the direct supervision of practicing physicians.

Other medical professionals who may participate in training programs at the teaching hospital will include nursing students, physician assistant students, and physical therapy students. “At a teaching hospital patients have the advantage of being cared for by physicians at various levels.

It will also have research programs so that newer techniques, medications and other treatments can be available for patients in Gwadar,” a GPA official told Gwadar Pro. Under CPEC Phase I, the state-of-the-art Pak-China Friendship Hospital was completed in May 2024 with financing from the Chinese government. It is equipped with 150 beds with dynamically functional Out Patient Department (OPD).

Spreading over 68 acres of land, it is providing free health services to the patients with gynecological, orthopedic, neurological, gastroenterological, cancer, dental, pediatric, infectious, diabetic, and hypertension conditions. A 100 % paperless environment has been made possible for inclusive convenience, ease and comfort, preventing the illiterate people of coastal communities from being caught up in lengthy and tedious procedures.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan (INP) — Pak-China