Punjab matters: Amount allocated for development goals

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Excise and Taxation Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman said an amount of Rs2 billion has been allocated for achieving the “Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”. Talking to his party workers, Rehman said that by increasing the health budget to Rs121.80 billion, the government has ensured modern health facilities and free medicines for the poor. He said people of rural and remote areas are provided treatment facilities through mobile health units and Rs1 billion has been allocated for it. A huge sum of Rs47.44 billion will be spent for treatment facilities and hospital upgrade during the current financial year. DFID has granted an aid worth Rs351 million to construct 15,000 additional class rooms, one additional class room for each public sector school having deficient facilities. An amount of Rs600 million has been reserved for dialysis facilities for poor kidney patients, and Rs8.25 billion for the  treatment of poor and destitute in public sector hospitals.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11^th, 2014.

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