About Us
Our History
Discover the rich heritage and evolution of the Pakistan Orthopaedic Association
Pakistan Orthopaedic Association
Pakistan Orthopaedic Association (POA) is a non-profit, NGO of Orthopaedic Surgeons in Pakistan. Launched in 1964 in Hyderabad, POA has been at the forefront of advancing orthopaedic education, research, and clinical practices in Pakistan for nearly six decades.
Aims and Objectives
The core objectives that guide our work and commitment to the orthopaedic community
- To bring together all professional workers interested in the field of Orthopaedics and to encourage goodwill and co-operation between them.
- To stimulate interest in the study and advancement of the science and practice of Orthopaedics in all possible ways including propaganda, education and research.
- To establish and run accident & trauma service centres and hospitals to promote the objectives of the Association
- To organize and help in the organization of Rehabilitation centres and crippled children clinics.
- To arrange lectures, clinical meetings, conferences and exhibitions for the study and discussion of all the problems of Orthopaedics.
- To co-operate or to enter into arrangement with other Association, Bodies and authorities (national & International) in all matters which are likely to promote the objectives of the Association.
About HMC Peshawar
The Hayatabad Medical Complex is a large medical complex and hospital located in the Hayatabad suburb of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The second largest hospital in the city, it is a medical postgraduate training centre. The hospital provides medical and surgical specialties in the fields of Optometry, Cardiology, Thoracic Surgery, Paediatrics, Physiotherapy, Plastic Surgery, Psychiatry, as well as Dentistry, Dermatology, Orthopedic and Spine Surgery, PEADS, Pulmonology, and Human Nutrition. Apart from the western parts of Peshawar, the hospital also serves patients coming from surrounding regions and neighboring Afghanistan for treatment.
About Department of Orthopedic and Spine Surgery
- The department or Trauma, Orthopaedics & spine surgery was founded in 1996 and is one of the busiest units in the country. We take pride in the services we provide and our skilled and dedicated staff. It is one of the only units in the country where dedicated subspecialty services are provided to our patients under the care of fully trained and qualified consultants in their relevant fields.
- The recently renovated fully air-conditioned department has the capacity to accommodate 110 in patients, with separate bays for Spine, Arthroplasty, Oncology, Paediatric and infected cases. We provide specialist care for simple and complex trauma including pelvis and acetabulum fractures, non-union and deformity correction, primary and revision arthroplasty, spine pathology, Paediatrics, Oncology and sports injuries. We are a tertiary referral unit for many of these subspecialties and also provide care to patients from neighbouring Afghanistan.
- Our academic unit provides educational facilities for undergraduate medical students from Khyber girls medical college and is one of the most reputed unit for post graduate training in Trauma & Orthopaedics in KPK. Numerous post graduate trainees from our unit have progressed on to consultant posts after completion of their training and passing their FCPS Orth exam. We are also one of the only units in the country to provide post FCPS advanced fellowship training in spine, arthroplasty, oncology and paediatrics and we have fellows from all over the country for short- and long-term training.
- Alongside clinical activities, we are a progressive and academic unit and organise regular courses for trainees in trauma, arthroplasty, spine, oncology, paediatrics and exam preparation on a fixed annual calendar. Our consultants are regularly invited as faculty both nationally and internationally in various meetings, courses and seminars to share their knowledge, skills and experience. We have an extended database of all our patients in different subspecialties where we use this data for extensive research and publications.
- Our unit gets extensive support from diagnostic facilities within the hospital like pathology labs, radiology including plain radiography, Ultrasound scan, CT scan, MRI scan and well-equipped physiotherapy department with dedicated physiotherapists for our unit. We work in close cohesion with various other units within the hospital and outside in other hospitals to provide total care for our patients.
- In summary, we aim to deliver high quality, evidence-based care to our patients which is acceptable to them in their environment with a constant drive to improve our services. At the same time, we take pride in our academic services at undergraduate, postgraduate and post FCPS level and continue to expand on our academic involvement.
About Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the eighth-most populous Pakistani city, with a population of over 1.9 million. It is located in the north-west of the country, lying in the Valley of Peshawar, a broad area situated east of the Khyber Pass.
Peshawar’s recorded history dates back to at least the sixth century BC, making it one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in South Asia. One of the principal cities of the ancient Gandhara, Peshawar served as the capital of the Kushan Empire during the rule of Kanishka the Great in the second century CE.
A variety of Muslim empires ruled the city following the conquest of Peshawar by the Ghaznavids from the Hindu Shahis in 1001 CE. It was an important trading centre of the Mughal Empire, later serving as the winter capital of the Durrani Empire from 1776 until the capture of the city by the Sikh Empirein 1823. In 1849, the city was captured by the East India Company and subsequently became part of the British Raj. In 1901, Peshawar became the capital of the North-West Frontier Province after it was created from the northwestern districts of Punjab Province. Following the Partition of British Indiain 1947, it became part of Pakistan.
Peshawar is a major cultural, political and economic centre of the region. During the colonial period and well into the early years after independence, the lingua franca of Peshawar was Hindko; in the succeeding decades, the rapid urbanization and the high rate of migration from the rural and tribal areas of the province, as well as the influx of Afghan refugees following the Soviet–Afghan War, transformed Peshawar from a Hindko to a Pashto-speaking city. Today Peshawar is largely populated by Pashtuns, although the original urban population, known as Peshoris, still have a significant presence in the central areas of the old Walled City.
