Emergency services are open and available 24/7, 7 days a week at Al Ihsan Hospital Rawalpindi. Our emergency department is well equipped with an adequate number of cardiac monitors, defibrillators, and other important equipment including ventilators and a dedicated ultrasound machine. The Emergency Services department is a very high activity area of the hospital and so has senior consultants, physicians, and trained staff present at all times. We have employed a new triage system, to prioritize all patients based upon their clinical needs, in order to attend to the most critical patient first.
Patients in our emergency department are expedited in their treatment so that the majority can be discharged or admitted within 4 hours. We have a steadily increasing number of patients coming to our emergency department year after year.
Al Ihsan Hospital’s emergency department is a 8-bedded fully equipped facility, that is staffed with ER-trained medical and Para-medical staff, capable to deal with all major medical, surgical, pediatric, Obs/ gyne emergencies. The department practices a triage mechanism by which patients are evaluated and prioritized based upon a defined system called Emergency Severity Index, has also been in practice. The patients are treated by experienced physicians in emergency medicine and a senior doctor remains always available 24/7. Separate procedure room, triage areas, on-site pharmacy, lab, and are the highlights of the ER. The department has staffed 8 doctors, including 2 full-time consultants, an ER trained nursing team of about 8 people, and a team of administration professionals of 4 people to facilitate the patients round the clock.
