ISLAMABAD – Haier-Pakistan will donate all electric appliances to Peshawar’s Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, Chief Executive Officer and Peshawar Zalmi chairman Javed Afridi announced on Saturday.
The announcement was made during a meeting between Afridi and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan at the latter’s residence in Islamabad’s Bani Gala.
ہائیر پاکستان کی انسان اور پاکستان سے دوستی اور محبت کا ایک اور ثبوت
، پشاور میں تعمیر ہونیوالے شوکت خانم کینسر ہسپتال کی تمام الیکٹرونکس اپلائنسس جاوید آفریدی نے ہائیر پاکستان کی جانب سے عطیہ کرنے کا اعلان کردیا pic.twitter.com/j6cmzF3rrY
— Javed Afridi (@JAfridi10) February 10, 2018
The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Peshawar was inaugurated by a young cancer patient Fakhir Afridi, alongside Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan, on Dec 29, 2015.
https://www.facebook.com/ImranKhanOfficial/videos/1270768556298895/
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Imran Khan had said “construction of a state of the art cancer hospital in Peshawar was his dream which has now come true”.
Located in Hayatabad area of provincial capital, the eight-storey hospital will have 20 chemotherapy beds, six emergency room beds, 12 admission beds, two intensive care units beds, radiology services including mammography, plain radiology and ultrasonography and a pathology laboratory.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/shaukat-khanum-cancer-hospital-inaugurated-in-peshawar/
In the first phase, the hospital will provide X-ray, CT scan, MRI, chemotherapy and pathological services to the patients that will be followed by radiation services in the second phase, planned by 2015, and surgery after one year.
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/lifestyle/shaukat-khanum-turns-23/
This is the second such facility built by Imran Khan led Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust after the PTI chief’s mother died of cancer. The cricketer-turned politician inaugurated the first cancer hospital in Lahore in 1994.
