Prioritising health: 150-bed hospital to be built in Bhakkar

BHAKKAR:

A 150-bed hospital will be set up in Hyderabad Thal in Bhakkar. 

A spokesman of the Health Department said an agreement in this regard had been signed between the Qatar Foundation and the Punjab government.

Under the agreement, four small hospitals will be built in other areas of the district. As many as four ambulances would also be handed over to Bhakkar, the spokesman said. The agreement was signed by CEO Saeed Al-Hajri from Qatar Foundation and Health Secretary Jawad Rafeeq Malik and Education Secretary Abdul Jabbar Shaheen on behalf of the Punjab government. The Qatar Foundation will bear cost of construction and operational expenditures of the hospital. The spokesman said providing health facilities were a top priority of the government. 

Published in The Express Tribune, January 24^th, 2015.