- Added 12 Sep 2014
Liaquat National Hospital and Medical College
Experience
Liaquat National Hospital (LNH) in one of the main centers of Pakistan where several clinical trials are conducted by local and multinational pharmaceutical companies, CROs and academicians.
Most specialists and investigators have received postgraduate education from the US, EU and UK and are also GCP compliant.
LNH has its own institutional ethics review board that actively reviews new and ongoing research projects including clinical trials and epidemiological studies.
Liaquat National Hospital has MRI machines, pathology laboratory facilities, additional Executive II and III Wards, CCU, MICU, dialysis machines and ventilators. An operation theatre, intensive care unit. and transplant unit complex are under construction.
Research interests
Being a premier institution of Pakistan and the biggest tertiary care hospital Liaquat National Hospital has established several partnerships, collaborations with both for profit and non-profit organizations. It has a clinical trials unit that is working in collaboration with a major CRO of Pakistan to assure all research is ICH GCP compliant.
Disease areas
- Cancer
- Cholera
- Dengue
- Enteric diseases
- Helminths
- Influenza
- Leishmaniasis
- Malaria
- Maternal Health
- Mental Health
- Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)
- Neuro Infections
- Newborn Health
- Respiratory Diseases
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- TB
Other information
Liaquat National Hospital & Medical College, located at the center of the city is the largest private sector tertiary care hospital serving the society for the last 56 years. This non-profit organization, which started out with four outpatient services and 50 beds, has now approximately 700 beds covering an area of nearly 53 acres with 30 medical and surgical specialties providing both inpatient and outpatient services keeping the tradition of delivering distinguished health care facilities LNH excels in providing the most advanced methods of diagnosis and treatment of nearly all clinical disciplines. It has the latest diagnostic, therapeutic & preventive healthcare facilities and is equipped with state-of-the-art advanced technology and fully-equipped operation theaters. It provides 24 hours emergency, pharmacy, laboratory and radiology services including nuclear medicine facilities.
OUR SPECIALITIES
- Anesthesiology - Internal Medicine
- Breast Diseases - Infectious Diseases
- Cardiology - Nephrology
- Chest Diseases - Neurosciences
- Cardiac Thoracic Surgery - Oncology
- Dental and Maxillofacial - Ophthalmology
- Dermatology - Orthopedics
- Diabetic Care and Endocrinology - Pediatrics
- ENT - Pediatric Surgery
- Emergency Care - Plastic Surgery
- Gastroenterology - Psychiatrics
- General Surgery - Rheumatology
- Gynecology & Obstetrics - Urology
- Hematology - Vascular Surgery
Today, LNH is known for its excellent faculty, nurses and staff specialized in every aspect of medical care. Always placing the patient’s need as the top priority and providing the highest standards of clinical care available in Pakistan, it caters approximately 25,000 emergencies, 60,000 inpatients and over 260,000 outpatients each year.
LNH after entering the field of education in 1978 now stands in a new era of continuous professional development and technological improvement.
To its ambit are:
- An institute for Postgraduate Medical Studies and Health Sciences.
- A Medical College
- A College of Nursing
- A Skills Laboratory
- A School of Physiotherapy
The hospital also offers residency training programs, in a majority of the existing disciplines, recognized for fellowship by the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP). It includes certain disciplines which are also recognized by different Royal Colleges in the UK.
Over time, LNH has dramatically expanded and refined the expertise it offers, but still retains its founder’s guiding principle of service not only to its patients’ but also to its employees.
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