Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi

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Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi
Part of Pakistan Army Hospitals
Geography
LocationRawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Coordinates 33°34′52″N73°02′50″E / 33.581093°N 73.047168°E / 33.581093; 73.047168
Organisation
Care system
Hospital type Teaching Military Hospital
Commandant Maj Gen Tufail Ahmad
Affiliations Army Medical College, PMC, NUMS, CPSP
Network Combined Military Hospitals
Services
Standards ISO 9001:2015
Emergency department Level I Trauma Center
Beds1000
History
Founded1859
First Commandant Lt Col J.E. Snow
Links
Lists Hospitals in Pakistan
Other links List of hospitals in Lahore

The Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi is a tertiary care military hospital in Rawalpindi. [1] It is headed by a Major General from the Army Medical Corps (Pakistan). It provides specialized treatment to the armed forces personnel and their immediate families.

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Hospital facilities

It is an A Class Combined Military Hospital. It is the chief medical hospital of the cantonment area of Rawalpindi, along with being a Military Hospital for the Armed Forces of Pakistan.

This 1000 bed hospital mainly looks after the surgical diseases and caters for all ranks of the Armed Forces. This hospital has these healthcare units in it:

There is also a battle casualty/artificial limb section attached to the hospital. This hospital has the only dedicated department of spine surgery in the country. The General Medical Council of UK recognizes the hospital for postgraduate training in different surgical fields. The medical students of Army Medical College are imparted clinical training by the concerned specialists and the professors.

In 2005, a study was conducted which aimed to identify the health hazards posed by the hospital wastes to the sanitary workers of this hospital. The study was to make recommendations for the improvement of the workers' health status. [2]

In 2013, then Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani inaugurated the newly constructed buildings of Outdoor Patient Department (OPD), Emergency Department and Diagnostic Department. This was to increase the combined hospital capacity of CMH and MH to 2500 beds. It was also stated, at the time, the hospital would be able to treat 6000 patients daily. [3]

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References

  1. Burn Units at Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, Daily Times (newspaper), Published 26 April 2012, Retrieved 5 September 2017
  2. Health Hazards of Hospital Waste to Sanitary Workers at Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Archived 6 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine , Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Published 2 December 2005, Retrieved 5 September 2017
  3. New buildings inaugurated at Combined Military Hospital, Rawalpindi, The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 28 November 2013, Retrieved 5 September 2017