Kidney centre to be established at the district headquarters hospital. PHOTO: FILE
“The Faisalabad Development Trust (FDT), an NGO, will cooperate with the administrations to beautify the city and execute welfare projects,” FDT chairman Shaiq Javed said on Friday.
He was speaking at a meeting with district officers, FDT trustees and industrialists.
Javed said the FDT would help set up a food street and cooperate with the city government on development of green belts along Canal Road.
Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Akram Javed praised the FDT for playing its role. He said the DCO had taken several initiatives to beautify Faisalabad under a master plan. “The proposed development and welfare projects can only be completed if local industrialists cooperate with the administration.”
District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal said green belts were being developed and restored from Gatwala to Abdullahpur Chowk. He said the projected cost of the project was Rs40 million.
“A kidney centre is being established at the district headquarters hospital,” he said. He said the lithotripsy machine would cost Rs45 million. “Twenty dialysis machines will be provided to the hospital by the city district government,” he added.
Mengal said a Lyallpur Heritage and Cultural Trust was being set up to preserve the history of the city.
He said that an office of the Traffic Engineering and Transport Planning Agency (TEPA) had been established near FDA Complex.
The Parks and Horticulture Authority managing director apprised the meeting on development plan of green belts at Canal Road.
City Police Officer Haider Ashraf said a project to build a Combined Police Hospital had been conceived to provide quality medical treatment facilities for police employees and their as well as citizens.
Punjab Medical College Principal Dr Yasin Hashmi and Allied Hospital’s Head of Urology Department Dr Safdar Hassan Sial briefed the participants on the kidney centre project. They said staff and equipment had been arranged for the 100-bed wing at the DHQ Hospital.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 14th, 2013.
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