RAWALPINDI: Work on Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) costing Rs1.27 billion would be completed soon while an international standard AstroTurf would be laid at Government Waqarun Nisa College for Women, said Punjab Sports Board Steering Committee Chairman Muhammad Hanif Abbasi here Sunday.
Talking to APP, he said that state-of-the-art facility would be ready for the city and its adjoining areas in 2018. He added that a 265-bed urology and transplant centre was being constructed for which the provincial government had so far spent Rs1 billion.
Abbasi also said that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government was endeavouring to provide maximum medical facilities to the masses and free medicines were being provided to patients in emergency wards of allied hospitals. He added that dialysis patients were being provided better and cheap treatment at BBH compared to private hospitals.
Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique, who visited the under-construction RIUKT last week, had directed the authorities to work in two shifts to complete the project at the earliest. He had also directed the authorities to redesign security and fire-fighting systems, pharmacy and equip the institute with the latest technology.
The RIUKT project was inaugurated in 2012 by Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.
