| Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases | |
| Map Type: | Pakistan |
| Coordinates: | 24.9333°N 67.0803°W |
| Location: | ST-15, Block 16, Federal B. Area, Gulberg Town, Karachi |
| State: | Sindh |
| Country: | Pakistan |
| Address: | ST-15, Block-16, Near UBL Sports Complex, Federal B. Area, Karachi-75950, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Funding: | Public |
| Type: | Teaching, Specialist |
| Speciality: | Cardiology |
| Emergency: | Yes |
| Helipad: | No |
| Beds: | 120 |
| Founded: | 2005 |
| Website: | https://www.kihd.edu.pk/ |
Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD), is a tertiary care teaching hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. It is the second largest state-run heart diseases hospital in Karachi.[1]
The 120-beds facility spread out over an area of 3.6 acres is located in Federal B. Area, Gulberg Town, Karachi.[2]
The institute provides out-patient service and diagnostic facilities, such as Electrocardiography, X-Ray, Exercise Tolerance Test, Echo Doppler studies, angiography, angioplasty. There are two coronary-care units, a 20-bed emergency hall and an 80-bed ward.[3]
In 1974, Nusrat Bhutto inaugurated a maternity home which later turned into an educational institution. The location housed the old campus of the Karachi Medical and Dental College.[2]
In January 2004, Mayor Karachi Naimatullah Khan laid the foundation stone of the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases.[4] The institute became functional in June 2005. The City District Government Karachi under Naimatullah Khan had spent about Rs.800 million on the project.[2]
In March 2008, the institute started providing a non-invasive cardiac therapy known as angiogenesis to patients to treat ischemic myocardium.[5]
In 2018, The Express Tribune reported regarding the various non-functional machines at the institute.[6]
In December 2021, the 22nd chest pain unit of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases was inaugurated at the institute.[7] [8]
In May 2022, the angiography department of the institute was shut down due to the closure of the angiography machine.[9]
In August 2022, an Emergency Response Center of Rescue 1122 was inaugurated at the institute.[10]
In April 2023, a Research department was inaugurated at the institute.[11]
In May 2023, the angiography machine was activated at the institute.[12]
In April 2024, the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation City Nursing Institute was inaugurated by the Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab at the KIHD.[13]
In May 2024, Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab inaugurated the Blue Code Intensive Care Ward at the institute.[14]