–Inaugurates Kahna Tehsil Headquarters Hospital
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif claimed on Friday that the surgical tower of the city’s Mayo Hospital boasted facilities equal to those available in Europe.
Addressing the inauguration of the Kahna Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, the chief minister also said that the surgical tower had been completed along with the construction of a 300-bed new block at the Services Hospital. “Similarly, a new department has been set up for the treatment of children in Children’s Hospital with a capacity of 600-beds,” he said.
Along with it, the chief minister said, a 1200-bed PKLI was being completed with a cost of Rs20 billion and it would be the best medical institution in South Asia for the treatment of kidney and liver diseases. “Such a quality hospital does not exist in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and the credit goes to the Punjab government for it is contructing the hospital with its own resources,” said Shehbaz.
Provincial Minister Kh. Imran Nazir, Lord Mayor Mubashar Javed, Mian Ahsan and Dr. Abdul Bari of Indus Trust, MPAs and a large number of people were present on the occasion.
Taking aim at his political opponents, Shehbaz said they spread a web of hospitals in the province but in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, institutions were destroyed and not a single hospital was made in Peshawar in the last five years.
He also criticised Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari for destroying Karachi.
The Punjab chief minister, who is also the president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said they eradicated corruption wherever they witnessed it and added that if a penny’s worth of misappropriation is proved against him, he can be taken to task.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Shehbaz inaugurated the 100-bed Tehsil Headquarters Hospital Kahana Nau. He visited different wards and inquired after the health of the patients there. The chief minister asked about the standards of medical facilities from patients and their attendants who expressed satisfaction over the provision of facilities at the hospital.
Speaking to the patients, Shehbaz said that round-the-clock facilities had been ensured at the hospital through a public-private partnership based system adding that people of the area would enjoy latest healthcare facilities.
“Best lab, latest machinery, professional doctors and the trained medical staff is available in this hospital, which will provide effective treatment facilities to the patients coming from Kasur and other adjoining areas,” said the chief minister while adding that neither would there be any strikes at the hospital nor would anyone mistreat the patients.
“The needy patients will enjoy the same facilities that are accessible to the affluent in expensive hospitals. There is a filter clinic to provide medical facilities to hundreds of patients every day in an organised manner, said Shehbaz andalso congratulated Provincial Minister for Health Khawaja Imran Nazir, Secretary Ali Jan Khan, ACS (C&W), Mian Ahsan and Dr Abdul Bari of Indus Trust for burning the midnight oil and completing the hospital in time.