‘Affordable healthcare govt’s priority’

The CM said that the hospital would provide modern medical facilities to kidney and liver patients under one roof

LAHORE:

Free of charge treatment will be provided to deserving patients at the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant Institute and Research Centre, Lahore, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Sunday.

He was presiding over a meeting to review progress on the project.

“The provision of modern treatment facilities to the people is a priority of the government. Keeping in view this fact, work has been started on the state-of-the-art Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant Institute in Lahore,” he said.

He said that the project would cost billions of rupees. “Hundred per cent free treatment facilities will be provided to the poor, the destitute and the deserving,” he said.

The chief minister said that the hospital would provide modern medical facilities to kidney and liver patients under one roof.

“The Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant Institute will boost clinical research and provide modern treatment facilities to the people,” he said. Adviser to CM on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique, Institute’s board of governors’ president Dr Saeed Akhtar attended the meeting.

Separately, the chief minister expressed sorrow over the loss of lives in a roof-collapse incident in Samadawala, Pakpattan.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 7^th,  2015.