LAHORE: A two-hour long meeting was held at site-office of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute (PKLI) with CM Shehbaz Sharif in the chair. The meeting reviewed the progress on different matters as well as recruitment of the human resource in detail.
Addressing the meeting, Shehbaz Sharif said that the Punjab government is setting up the most modern hospital for the patients of kidney and liver with the resources of billions of rupees. The work on the project of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute is in progress speedily and the institute will be inaugurated on December 25 this year, he said.
I am hopeful that all the public welfare projects will be completed well in time if the situation in Pakistan remains tranquil, he said. He said that this institution would be a state-of-the-art facility for the transplantation of kidney and liver and the hospital would start treating patients on the anniversary of Quaid-e-Azam. The whole system of this institution would be digitalised, he added. The chief minister also expressed the desire that this institution should emerge as a state-of-the-art platform for the treatment of kidney and liver diseases in South Asia and added that a nursing school will also be established alongside.
He said that billions of rupees are being spent to provide international standard healthcare facilities to the people. The poor will be treated free of cost while the rich will pay for their treatment, he said. He said that Pakistani doctors and other staff residing in foreign countries have given good response for the treatment of patients in this hospital and that necessary facilities would be provided to surgeons, doctors, nurses and other staff.
The CM visited hepatitis filter clinic and met with the patients there who expressed their satisfaction over the availability of latest facilities in the clinic. They said that the best treatment is being given to them. An elderly woman prayed for the CM and said that he has done a very noble act by establishing a hepatitis filter clinic. On the occasion, the chief minister said that the healing of wounds of the ailing humanity is his duty which will be fulfilled at every cost. He commended the performance of doctors and other staff of the filter clinic and told that the scope of filter clinics will be extended to the whole of the province.
