GIK institute is focused on providing facilities to the disabled persons. Currently our newly established New Academic Block is fully equipped to facilitate the disabled persons. Ramps are available at GIK for ease of disabled persons, special Toilets for disabled persons are made to facilitate special needs of such people. The pedestrian paths all over the Institute have been designed to facilitate the disabled. Ramps are available on the footpaths for ease of the disabled people’s movement.
Project Topi collaboration with Akbar Kare Foundation
Project Topi, in collaboration with Akbar Kare Institute (AKI) held an informative session on “Bridging Healthcare and Engineering for Child Assistive Technology.” The session aimed to highlight research opportunities in the field of Assistive Technology and foster collaboration with the students and faculty of GIKI for the research and development of innovative solutions. By bringing together experts from healthcare and engineering, the event provided valuable insights into how interdisciplinary efforts could advance technologies that improve the lives of children in need of assistive devices.
Maternity Care and Health infrastructure facilities
GIKI, the center of excellence, is having medical facilities for the teaching staff, students and non-teaching staff since the start of its functioning in 1993-1994, which are the best medical facilities in line to any other university or educational institute in the country. The idea behind these medical facilities was of the Late Ghulam Ishaq Khan, the founder of the Institute, to give day-to-day free consultation and an emergency treatment to the patients in the institute in good health and hygienic atmosphere, although the DHQ hospital is at distance of 20 to 30 minutes journey. The patients are being provided free of cost medical care which includes free of cost medicines, free of cost Lab investigation, free of cost X-ray as and when required and necessary for patients. Patients are treated as outdoor patients as well admitted for indoor treatment of short duration. The emergency/serious cases are detained in Medical Centre and initial/first aid treatment is given to stable patient and then referred to big hospitals through GIKI ambulance vehicle. Medical care cover is given round the clock to the employees, their families, students, faculty members and their families.
Emergency Room: Medical Centre GIKI have an emergency unit which is well equipped with upgraded medical instruments and lifesaving drugs which give us the best possible chance to handle any kind of emergency. The under mentioned medical equipment are available in emergency room: a. Cardiac Monitor b. ECG machine c. Nebulizer d. Defibrillator e. Pulse oximeter f. Intubation set g. Oxygen cylinder h. Different kinds of IV infusion (Lifesaving drugs) i. Ambo bag j. Vaccines like anti venom, anti-Rabies, inj. TT etc. Labour Room: Medical Centre GIK Institute Topi is having well equipped Labour Room. A good antenatal setup and all the required medicines and instruments are available. Nursing staff of MC are highly experienced/ trained and qualified in midwifery, to carry on with normal vaginal delivery cases of Primigravida as well as multigravida pregnant women under the supervision of lady doctor.
Antenatal Check-up: For antenatal check-up, pregnant women visiting the hospital/ MC, are clinically examined and screened through various lab investigations to rule out any risk factor if present. Medical Centre GIKI has upgraded minor OT room with upgraded equipment and sterilization system where necessary cases like injury, trauma, RTA, burn cases and minor operations are performed, first aid facilities i.e. stitching of wounds, ASD (Antiseptic dressing), are done. MC GIKI has X-Ray unit (500mA XRay machine with CR system, where different types of X-Ray are taken. Pharmacy: Medical Centre GIK has a well-established Pharmacy which is run by qualified and experienced staff, and where medicines are dispensed, and patient counseling is done. The medicines are of reputed multinational companies. Our purchase system is direct from company’s distributors. Medicines prescribed by doctors in MC GIK are available in Pharmacy for 24 hours. Ambulance Facility: MC GIK has one ambulance for pick-and-drop facility for students, employees and their spouses inside the GIK campus and another ambulance vehicle for patients if referred in emergency cases to other hospitals.
Available Health Services: • MC GIKI doctors and Para Medical Staff are running OPD in office hours from 8 AM to 5 PM with one-hour break from 1 PM to 2 PM (services of emergency are continued) and 01 medical doctor is on duty in MC from 05 pm to 11 pm and on call duty from his/her residence from 11 pm to 8 am. • Staff nurses and Para medical staff are available in 2 shifts after OPD i.e. from 5 PM to 8 AM. Where one doctor is always on call duty for any emergency case if called by staff nurse on duty. • Emergency case is detained in MC for diagnostic purpose and treatment. When the patient is stable after getting emergency treatment and if the patient needs services of different specialties, patient is referred to tertiary care hospital on panel by doctors in MC GIK through ambulance vehicle. • Medical Assistant is sent with the referred patient in the ambulance vehicle who assists the patient in the ambulance to provide O2, necessary injections (medicines), to maintain I/V line and observe vital signs. Medical Assistant is in contact with the doctor in MC GIK on Mobile phone about the condition of the referred patient, Admission, treatment/operation if any in the tertiary care hospital. • All the Government civil hospitals and CMH/MH are on panel of GIK. Employees are allowed reimbursement of actual hospitalization expenditures incurred by them in respect of self and dependent family members namely spouse and children in case of serious and emergent nature, acute and chronic dread diseases, referred to hospitals on panel. • Recently (in the near past), we have made a contract with CMH Tarbella for the treatment of our referred patients and duly MIU has been signed between management of CMH Tarbella and management of GIK Institute where an advance of revolving money has been kept for expenditures on the admitted patients. The same contract has been made with AFIC Rawalpindi and CMH (MH) Rawalpindi, PAF Hospital Islamabad and Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital Peshawar by keeping an advance of revolving money for the treatment of our referred/ admitted patients.
Hygiene monitoring visits: • Doctor in MC GIK is doing hygienic visit to the places where food is cooked and served like central mess (04 numbers of messes), cafeteria, campus hotels and tuck shops etc. • Medical checkup of workers in mess are done by in charge MC in MC GIK on monthly basis. • Instructions/Precautions for hygienic conditions against epidemic diseases in the GIKI campus are given to GIKIAN’s as and when necessary. We do campaign against epidemic diseases like episodes of Dengue fever, Malaria, cholera, polio; through fixing of Panaflex in the campus, through emails and remained in collaboration with Govt. health officials and administration. • Blood donation camps are arranged in MC GIK i.e., Fatimid foundation Peshawar and Abbotonian blood donation Abbottabad, 3-4 times in a year for donation of blood by GIKIANS. • During the academic year about 200 students from other universities are invited by GIK students for different curricular and extracurricular activities (societies) on weekends, free medical emergency cover is given to them by MC GIK.
Day Care center: The establishment of a Day Care Center at the GIK Institute is a progressive and inclusive step towards supporting the university’s community, particularly faculty members, staff, and students who are also parents. This initiative can contribute to several key areas, including improving gender equality, supporting work-life balance, and promoting an inclusive and supportive campus environment.
Equal Opportunities for all
Fruit-seller’s son, TCF alumnus graduates from GIKI
In a small, mud-brick house of Khuda ki Basti, a slum in Karachi, the power is out, mosquitos are buzzing around, and rainwater is seeping in through the roof. Muhammad Ahmad, a fruit-seller, smiles happily as he stacks up mangoes on his pushcart and shares, “With my earnings, it would not have been possible for me to put Asad through a good school, college and university,” shares Ahmad. He leads us to the veranda where we join his wife and children who are waiting on a charpoy. He continues, “I had to drop out of school at a young age to support my family. It is my dream to educate all my children and TCF is making it possible.”
“In our community, boys are expected to take up full-time jobs at a young age but Baba (father) encouraged me to focus on my education,” shares Asad, a TCF school and college alumnus. “When I was leaving for university, he handed me some money for my living expenses which he had been saving to get our roof fixed. When I hesitated, he told me: The repairing of our home can wait but this opportunity might not come again.” Asad, who graduated from the prestigious Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, is ready to begin his first job at a software company. Two of his younger siblings, Saad and Sadia, are currently first-year students at TCF College while his two other sisters, Haadiya and Tooba are studying in Classes 9 and 7 at the TCF school in their community – all of whom have big dreams of their own!
