Authorities directed to make RIUKT operational this year

RAWALPINDI: The authorities concerned have been directed to strive hard to ensure the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) becomes operational this year. According to Director Development Nazia Parveen Sudhan, the Rawalpindi Commissioner Capt (Retd) Saqib Zafar has directed the authorities to accelerate the pace of work on the project and organise a weekly review meeting.

She said 173 development schemes worth Rs29.126 billion were underway in Rawalpindi district to facilitate a population of 5.4 million people. Fourteen projects had been completed while 134 were in progress, she added.

She informed that the Punjab government was giving top priority to the projects of the health sector and the district administration on the special directive of the Rawalpindi commissioner was striving to provide modern health facilities to the citizens. The RIUKT project is of great importance and would be completed at a cost of Rs2.129 billion.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 21^st, 2019.