New kidney and liver centre on the cards in Faisalabad

MPA says NGOs should step up conributions for health, education

FAISALABAD: “Rs4 billion has been allocated for the establishment of a new kidney and liver centre in Faisalabad. This decision is in line with the government’s policy to provide comprehensive health cover to the citizens,” Provincial Assembly Member (MPA) Madiha Rana said on Friday.

She was addressing an Eid gifts distribution ceremony at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI). Gifts were presented to orphans at the ceremony.



Thanking the Rehman Foundation for providing free dialysis facilities to the poor, she said more NGOs in Faisalabad should step up to provide health and education.

She also thanked Khalid Pervaiz Sheikh of Anjuman-i-Islamia for managing the orphanage and providing lodging, education, sports and co-curricular facilities to the children.

The minister condemned the killing of Amjad Sabri. “A great man was taken away from us.

Such acts of terror are attempts to demoralise the nation that it is fighting extremism.”

Earlier, FCCI president Chaudhary Muhammad Nawaz said his responsibility was limited to resolving problems confronted by the business community. However, he said he had personally fixed two high priority areas for himself – health and education.

He said he was proud of his collaboration with various NGOs in this regard.

He also presented a cheque for Rs96,000 to Rehman Foundation and said that more donations would be arranged for the NGO.

Pervaiz Khalid Sheikh of Apna Ghar also addressed the function.

He said the Anjuman-i-Islamia had been providing social services to inhabitants of the city for nearly a century.

“Last year, we gave out small loans amounting to Rs20 million to 564 families of Guru nanakpura,” he said.

He said he had adopted 100 schools under a scheme announced by the chief minister.

“These neglected public sector schools did not have teachers and lacked basic facilities,” he said.



“As many as 6,000 students of a primary girls school did not have uniforms, but we managed to raise funds to provide for them.”

Waqar Ahmed Niaz of the Rehman Foundation also briefed the participants about the services offered by the organisation.

He said a dialysis centre had been set up at a cost of Rs7 million.

Earlier, Haji Muhammad Shafi of the FCCI led a prayer for Sabri who was gunned down in Karachi.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 25^th, 2016.