The Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases (OICD), DUHS.

Описание: The Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases (OICD) is one of the three constituent institutes of Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), established with the university’s inception in December 2003. Originally founded as a TB sanatorium in 1939, the institute began as five cottages donated by the family of Mr. Deep Chand Ojha, a renowned philanthropist, to provide relief for TB patients. The Ayurvedic TB Relief Association expanded the facility to 65 huts in 1942. Between 1962 and 1967, the main hospital building was constructed, increasing the bed capacity to 350. In 1973, the facility was upgraded from a sanatorium to the Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases, as it is known today.

The Ojha Institute of Chest Diseases (OICD) comprises of a 248-bedded hospital with five affiliated chest clinics.1-Malir Chest Clinic. 2- Liari Chest Clinic. 3-Nazimabad Chest Clinic. 4- Iqbalyaad Chest Clinic. 5- MDR-TB Clinic. Out of which the latter two are located within the DUHS Ojha sub-campus and the other three in various districts of Karachi. All diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided free of cost for both enrolled as well as out-patients. The hospital consists of three wards which include Pulmonology, Drug-resistant tuberculosis as well as Thoracic surgery. The Pulmonology ward is well equipped with advance facilities to diagnose and manage all types of chest diseases. The thoracic ward has a proficient team of thoracic surgeons available to provide medical assistance to patients arriving from the regions of Sindh and Balochistan provinces. It has medical as well as surgical ICUs. The laboratory of OICD is the designated as the “Provincial reference laboratory”.