Delayed project: Urology institute to be ready in a year

RAWALPINDI: Work on the Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant will be completed by June 2015, according to Public Works Department Sub-Divisional Officer Khalid Hafeez. He said 45 per cent of the construction has been completed, adding the Rs1.27 billion project was inaugurated in August 2012 and was scheduled to be completed in two years. However, due to delays the completion date has been revise, he added. Hafeez said in the first phase, a 265-bed Urology and Transplant Centre will be constructed for which the provincial government has spent Rs260 million so far. In the second phase, a 220-room nursing hostel and 24 doctors’ suites will be built, he informed.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 16^th, 2014.