Lady Reading Hospital

An ICRC account identifies Lady Reading Hospital as a tertiary-care hospital in Peshawar.

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Established facts

  1. Lady Reading began collecting funds in 1926 to establish a hospital in Peshawar, according to the ICRC account of Lady Reading Hospital.

    Verified · 1926

  2. The ICRC account describes the hospital's Accident and Emergency department as a central point for round-the-clock, free care for people affected by conflict and other violence. The sealed passage does not establish when that service arrangement applied or whether it continues.

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  3. The ICRC account reports that the emergency department had been handling more than 8,000 urgent and non-urgent cases daily, and that a triage system reduced that number while ensuring timely treatment for urgent cases. The passage does not date this intervention.

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  4. Approximately 267 mass-casualty incidents were managed at Lady Reading Hospital between 2007 and 2017, according to the ICRC account.

    Verified · 2017

  5. For the period it describes, the ICRC account reports that the hospital served people across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas and was a main referral hospital for 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The sealed passage does not date that service configuration.

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