PPP never backs away from serving people: Bilawal

HYDERABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that serving people has always been the focus of his party.

While addressing the inauguration ceremony of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases’s (NICVD) satellite branch in Hyderabad Sunday afternoon, Bilawal said, “PPP has never backed away from serving people.”

“We want to show that we connect hearts, we don’t break hearts. However, it is not that our hearts have been broken, our hearts were broken after the deaths of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto,” he added.

In a veiled reference to the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), he said two so-called political parties had been fighting “GT Road battle” for five years.

The PPP chairman said it is the people who will decide who they want to elect. Whether those who provided free healthcare facilities or those who just provided metro buses, he added.

People will have to decide whether they wanted battered roads or well-equipped hospitals, he continued.

He shared that the PPP is also working with Dr Adib-ul-Rizvi to build a branch of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Sukkur.

Speaking about NICVD, he said that the hospital will provide free of cost treatment of heart diseases to those in need.

Congratulating the entire team of NICVD on the inauguration of the hospital, Bilawal said that this is the result of team’s passion, hard work and zeal to help people.

The 70-bed hospital also has a coronary care unit and cardiac emergency centre. Experts doctors from all across the country will provide free treatment to patients 24/7.

The hospital’s soft opening was held a month back during which it conducted more than 100 angioplasties.