Rs20m set aside for veterinary hospital’s uplift
The Livestock Department is spending over Rs20 million on upgrading the civil and veterinary hospital and establishing a divisional feed testing lab, to provide value-added services at the doorstep of farmers in the division.
Director Livestock Dr Haider Ali Khan said on Friday that upgrading the hospital itself, construction of a training hall and establishing the lab would be completed during the current year.
He added that progress on the projects was being strictly monitored and special measures were taken to ensure transparency.
Dr Khan said that construction and rehabilitation work was ongoing on two dispensaries in Faisalabad and one in Toba Tek Singh. Efforts were being made to complete these projects on a priority basis.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2022.