A master plan worth Rs50 billion has been accepted for Civil Hospital Karachi.

Officials say that Syed Murad Ali Shah, the Chief Minister of Sindh, has given his approval to a Rs.100 billion master plan to change Civil Hospital Karachi. This is a big step toward improving the city’s healthcare system.

While running a big meeting at the Chief Minister’s House, Murad Ali Shah agreed to the project’s Rs.50 billion grant from the Sindh government. The Abdul Sattar Edhi Medical Tower will start being built right away.

With the help of a Rs50 billion fund from the regional government, the big project aims to double the size of the Civil hospital while keeping its historical features.

At the moment, Civil Hospital Karachi has 2,142 beds. With the planned expansion, there will be more than 500 extra beds and new buildings such as a medical tower, surgical ward, outpatient department (OPD), burns ward, and jail ward.

The total size of the hospital will grow by a lot. Old buildings and empty places will be replaced with modern vertical towers.

There will be a new outpatient department, a burns ward, a jail ward, a modern morgue and waste management system, administrative blocks, and unique dorms for nurses and doctors in these.

The plan also calls for widening Yakoob Khan Road and Bezanji Road to make it easier for ambulances to get to patients and to reduce traffic around the hospital.

During the renovation, Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said that the hospital would still have its historical look. “I will completely restore the heritage building,” he said, adding that both the new building and the historic buildings would be protected.

The meeting agreed that a board of professionals from both the public and private sectors would be set up to oversee the project’s implementation and move it along more quickly.