Bahawal Victoria Hospital

Bahawal Victoria Hospital (Urdu: بہاول وکٹوریہ سپتال‬‎, abbreviated as BVH) is located in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, started functioning as a Civil Hospital with an outdoor department and a dispensary and an operating theatre in 1876. In 1906 this health unit was named Bahawal Victoria Hospital. Now it is a hub of clinical expertise both in specialities as well as in sub-specialities with a multitude of patients visiting the hospital. In 1952, a benevolent extension of Nursing School was brought about with an anticipation to render rash and prompt basic health amenities.It is now a 1,600-bedded, fully equipped, tertiary-care hospital with all medical and surgical specialities, serving large number of patients in the South Punjab. It is facilitating undergraduate medical students of Quaid-e-Azam Medical College, nursing students of allied nursing school, paramedics and a large number of post-graduate trainees.Units/Departments1. Department of Medicine (consists of 4 wards/units)2. Department of Surgery (consists of 4 wards/units)3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (consists of 2 wards/units)4. Department of Paediatrics (consists of 2 wards/units)5. Department of Allied Medicine (consists of one unit of each of Cardiology/CCU, Nephrology/Dialysis, Pulmonology/Chest Diseases, Dermatology and Psychiatry/Behavioural Sciences)6. Department of Allied Surgery (consists of two units of each of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology; and one unit of each of Plastic/Reconstructive Surgery, Orthopedics, Urology, Neurosurgery, Accidents and Emergency Department and Paediatric Surgery)7. Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging8. Department of Pathology/Medical Laboratory Sciences (consists of Histopathology, Haematology, Microbiology, Chemical Pathology, Molecular Biology/PCR and Endocrinology sections)9. Department of Physiotherapy10. Department of Public Health/Community Medicine