The Islamabad Capital Territory is the only federal territory of Pakistan that is centred around Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, located on the northern edge of the Pothohar Plateau, at the foot of the Margalla Hills, in the northwestern area of the Punjab region. The territory shares borders with the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the west and with the province of Punjab in the remaining directions. It covers an area of 906.5 square kilometres (350.0 sq mi) and, according to 2023 census, has a population of over 2.3 million.
Islamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Built as a planned city in the 1960s and established in 1967, it replaced the adjacent Rawalpindi as Pakistan's national capital.
Gleneagles Hospital is a private hospital on Napier Road, Singapore, next to Napier MRT station. It provides medical and surgical services. It is part of Parkway Pantai, a subsidiary of the Malaysian–Singaporean private healthcare group IHH Healthcare.
Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited is an Indian multinational healthcare group headquartered in Chennai. It is the largest for-profit private hospital network in India, with a network of 71 owned and managed hospitals. Along with the eponymous hospital chain, the company also operates pharmacies, primary care and diagnostic centres, telehealth clinics, and digital healthcare services among others through its subsidiaries.
Ruby Hall Clinic is a hospital in the city of Pune, India. It is a 600 bed hospital with a staff of 300 consultants, 650 panel doctors and 1500 paramedical staff. It is accredited by National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH).
Dr. Mohamed Rela is an Indian surgeon. He is known for his expertise in liver transplantation and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery. He is considered one of the world's best liver transplant surgeons. He made his name in the Guinness Book of Records for performing a liver transplantation on a 5-day-old baby.
Sheikh Zayed Medical College, established in March 2003, is a public medical college located in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. It is named in honor of Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. The Medical College is affiliated with Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan which has 900 beds and is the biggest hospital of Rahim Yar Khan District.
Bahria Town (Private) Limited is an Islamabad-based privately owned real-estate development company which owns, develops and manages properties across Pakistan.
Allied Hospital is the leading government run hospital in the district of Faisalabad. Allied Hospital serves as the teaching hospital of Faisalabad Medical University, Faisalabad. It was founded in 1978.
Zaheer Ahmad was a Pakistani American medical doctor who was credited as being the founder and chief executive of the Shifa International Hospital in Islamabad. In 2011, he came under media attention when the United States accused him of being an associate of Dr. Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, a lobbyist from Kashmir and founder of the Kashmir American Council (KAC) who was charged for covertly attempting to lobby and influence the American government on the Kashmir conflict on behalf of the Government of Pakistan's interests.
Max Healthcare Institute Limited is an Indian for-profit private hospital chain headquartered in Delhi. As of 2024, Max Healthcare operates 19 hospitals with more than 4,000 beds, primarily in North India.
Medical tourism in Pakistan facilitates travel for various health and medical procedures. Numerous hospital facilities exist in major cities such as Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore, which are equipped and facilitated with modern medical technologies. Many doctors and surgeons in Pakistani hospitals are foreign-qualified. However, security issues and overall sub-par health infrastructure have challenged the growth of the industry.
Global Health Limited, d/b/a Medanta, is an Indian for-profit private hospital network based in Gurgaon. The chain was started in 2009 by cardiac surgeon Naresh Trehan and Sunil Sachdeva.
Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Center is a tertiary referral hospital in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan is part of the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Pakistan on 26 February 2020, when two cases were recorded. On 18 March 2020, cases had been registered in all four provinces, the two autonomous territories, and Islamabad Capital Territory, and by 17 June, each district in Pakistan had recorded at least one confirmed case of COVID-19.
H-8 is a sector of Islamabad. The sector is bounded by Srinagar Highway and G-8 to the north, Islamabad Expressway and Shakarparian to the east, I-8 to the south, and Ninth Avenue and H-9 to the west.
The Hussain Dawood Pledge (HD-Pledge) is one of the biggest private donations and initiatives to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan. Hussain Dawood, on behalf of Engro, Dawood Hercules and his family pledged on 2 April 2020 a contribution in services, kind, and cash of Pakistani rupee (PKR) 1 billion . The contribution became public a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan announced the coronavirus relief fund to fight the pandemic and urged everyone to donate.
The Pakistan Privatisation Commission, operating under the Ministry of Privatisation (Pakistan), is a government agency based in Islamabad responsible for executing the country's privatisation initiatives. Its primary role is to ensure open and transparent divestment of federal government assets, including stakes in banks, industrial units, oil and gas companies, transport enterprises, and infrastructure service providers.
Rs. 19.716 billion (US$68 million) (2023)