Over Rs200 provided for RIUKT

RAWALPINDI: More than Rs200 million have been provided to complete the on-going work at Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT), said Rawalpindi Commissioner Saqib Zafar on Sunday.

The commissioner said that state-of-the-art facility being completed at the cost of Rs2,129.057 million would be handed over to the health department by October 30.

"The RIUKT project which was inaugurated in August 2012 at Shamsabad would be ready for the city residents and people of the adjoining localities in 2019," he added.

In first phase, he said that emergency, dialysis and OPD departments would become functional as the required funds are being provided for its completion.

Saqib said that after the completion of emergency, dialysis and OPD the residents will get the latest health faculties.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 7^th, 2019.