NHS ministry hopes community health centres will reduce burden on tertiary care hospitals
(WorldNews Pakistan)

ISLAMABAD: After inaugurating the Shah Allah Ditta Community Health Centre (CHC) last month, the Ministry of National Health Services (NHS) is hopeful that people will stop depending as much on tertiary care hospitals such as the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), opting for CHCs instead. `We used to get a few dozen patients at the Shah Allah Ditta Basic Health Unit (BHU) in the past, but now we are getting a few hundred patients daily. We hope that...