PKLI to cater to needs of poor patients

Chief Minister’s Advisor on Health Khawaja Salman Rafique has said that the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Transplant and Research Institute (PKLI) is a unique institution being set up in trust mode where research, treatment and transplantation facilities of international standard will be available to patients suffering from kidney and liver diseases and such patients will not have to go abroad for treatment.

He said this while presiding over a meeting of the steering committee for reviewing the pace of progress on the PKLI project in the office of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant and Research Institute (Trust), here on Friday.

PKLI Trust Chairman Prof Saeed Akhtar, Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Secretary Najam Ahmed Shah, Additional Secretary to Chief Minister Muhammad Ali Aamir, besides officers of P&D, Finance, Building Department, LESCO, Sui Gas, NESPAK and other members of the steering committee also attended the meeting.

The meeting was told that the work of underground piling for the construction of this mega project had been completed and 835 piles had been laid underground while process of pressure checking was continuing. It was told that the site office of the project had become functional and eight international companies had submitted tenders for the construction of the project. The meeting was told that the pre-bid meeting would be held on February 26.

LESCO engineers informed the meeting about the progress on providing electricity to PKLI.

The meeting reviewed in detail the steps of laying pipelines for providing sui gas, sewerage and construction of roads.

LESCO officials said that the work of construction of grid of the hospital and installation of big transformers for providing double source electricity would be completed during the current year. Officers of Sui Northern Company told the meeting that the purchase of sui gas pipes had been completed and the project of laying pipes would be completed by June. The meeting was told that 3.3 kilometres pipeline of 10 inch diameter would be laid in this project.