Lady Dufferin Hospital is located in Karachi

Karachi

Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

, Sindh

Sindh

Sindh historically referred to as Ba'ab-ul-Islam , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhi people. It is also locally known as the "Mehran". Though Muslims form the largest religious group in Sindh, a good number of Christians, Zoroastrians and Hindus can...

, and it is the largest women's hospital in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. The hospital, which was completed in 1898, was named after the British peeress

Peerage

The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...

 Lady Dufferin

Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

Hariot Georgina Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava VA CI DBE was a British peeress, known for her success in the role of "diplomatic wife", and for leading an initiative to improve medical care for women in British India.-Biography:Born Hariot Georgina Rowan-Hamilton, she...

. Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto

Benazir Bhutto was a democratic socialist who served as the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996....

, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, gave bith to a girl in the hospital in 1990.

Donations

Seth Edulji Dinshaw

Seth Edulji Dinshaw

Seth Edulji Dinshaw was one of the foremost philanthropists from prepartition Karachi. A member of the Parsi community, he made his initial fortune during the Second Afghan War by being a contractor for the British Army. He then took his wealth and invested it in land and factories which reaped...

 contributed a sum of Rs. 50,000/- for is establishment
its wrong benazir bhutto give birth to a boy bilawal bhutto zardari in lady duffrin hospital in 1988

Foundation laying ceremony

The foundation laying ceremony was performed on 12 November 1894 by Lady Elgin

Lady Elgin

Lady Elgin may refer to:* The wife of the Earl of Elgin, most references likely being to Mary Louisa Lambton the second wife of James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, former Governor General of the Province of Canada and Viceroy of India....

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In 1915, Dr. Elizabeth Stephens Imprey was appointed the new head of the hospital, but she never made it to Karachi from England. She boarded the P & O liner SS Persia as a first class passenger in Tilbury, London. The ship was sunk off Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

's coast by a German submarine on December 30, 1915. More than 340 passengers drowned, including Dr. Imprey.

Features

Initially, a ward in this hospital was kept specifically for Parsis. In January 1917, the Virbaijee Maternity Wing was opened.