Abbasi Shaheed Hospital

Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (Urdu: عباسی شہید ہسپتال) is a teaching hospital located in Paposh Nagar neighborhood of Nazimabad, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.^[3]

Abbasi Shaheed Hospital عباسی شہید ہسپتال
Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC)[1]
Geography
Location	Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Organisation
Affiliated university	College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan[2]
Services
Beds	850[3]
History
Opened	1974
Links
Website	http://kmdc.edu.pk/abbassi-shaheed-hospital/

History

The hospital was constructed in the early 1970s^[4] and serves the residents of northern part of the city (Nazimabad, North Nazimabad, North Karachi, F. B. Area, Orangi Town etc.) with an estimated population of nearly 1 million. It is the Karachi's 3rd largest government hospital after Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and Civil Hospital.

This hospital was constructed by the city government during the tenure of Prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, in the name of Major Ziauddin Abbasi who sacrificed his life in the 1965 war between Pakistan and India.^[5][6]

See also

• List of hospitals in Karachi
• List of hospitals in Pakistan