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Abbasi Shaheed Hospital; Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre; Karachi Institute of Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine (KIRAN); Lady Dufferin Hospital, Karachi; National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases
The Vindhyachal Thermal Power Station is located in Singrauli district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. One of the coal-fired power stations of NTPC , it is the largest power station in India, and the 10th largest coal -fired power station in the world, with an installed capacity of 4,760 MW with total of 4783 MW. [ 1 ]
The company was founded on 7 November 1975 by India's former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as National Thermal Power Corporation Private Limited. It started working on its first thermal power project in 1976 at Shaktinagar—named National Thermal Power Corporation Private Limited Singrauli—in Uttar Pradesh. [10]
Dr. Ruth K. M. Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi; Dr. Ziauddin Hospital [4] Health Oriented Preventive Education; Holy Family Hospital, Karachi [4] Liaquat National Hospital [4] Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre, Karachi; P.N.S. Rahat; P.N.S. Shifa; Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) [5] National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD)
Dr. Ruth K.M. Pfau Hospital originally The Civil Hospital Karachi was established in 1854 and was expanded in 1898 in the wake of a third pandemic of Bubonic Plague on the one hand, and the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria on the other. The pandemic would kill at least an estimated 10 million people in India alone over a period of 20 years.
The site where the hospital has been located since Pakistani independence was before 1947 a centre for treatment of socially transmitted diseases. After 1947, it was converted to a centre for skin and social hygiene and treatment of lepers. The 50-bed hospital for treatment of skin diseases was established in the 1990s. [3]
On 1 July 2009, telephone numbers in Karachi and Lahore were changed from seven digits to eight digits. This was accomplished by adding the digit 9 to the beginning of any phone number that started with a 9 (government and semi-government connexions), and adding the digit 3 to any phone numbers that did not start with the number 9. [1]
In 1949, it was renamed Jinnah Central Hospital in honor of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. [6] In 1952, Dow Medical College was attached with the Jinnah Central Hospital. [2] The hospital started with 100 beds and by 1959 it had expanded to 500 beds. The Basic Medical Sciences Institute (BMSI) was founded in 1958-59. [6]