Public works: ‘We will build a thalassemia hospital’

‘Rs1 million given to DHQ hospital to set up thalessemia centre’.

FAISALABAD:

The Faisalabad Development Trust plans to establish a hospital for treatment of Thalassemia patients, a ceremony to distribute monetary cheques among deserving students and widows was told on Saturday.

The FDT trustees will pool in Rs10 million to start work on the project.

The FDT has already given Rs1 million to the Faisalabad district headquarters (DHQ) hospital for setting up of a Thalassemia Centre.

FDT trustee Mr Ahmed Shafi said a plan to set up an education institute was also in the pipeline. He said the project would be carried out in collaboration with the Citizens’ Foundation.

A delegation of the Citizens Foundation would soon visit Faisalabad to discuss the particulars of the project with FDT board of trustees, he said.

Earlier, Commissioner Syed Tahir Hussain distributed cheques worth Rs942,282 among 16 people, including students and widows, donated by the FDT.

He praised the generous donations made by the trust for the development of public works in the city and for the welfare of deserving students.

He was told that the trust had spent Rs20 million on its several welfare projects in the city.

These included construction of houses in Shahbaz Town on Sargodha Road for 60 homeless families.

The FDT also donated Rs3.1 million to the deserving students of University of Agriculture and equipment worth Rs2 million to Faisalabad DHQ hospital and worth Rs1.3 million to Chiniot DHQ Hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 22^nd, 2012.