ISLAMABAD – Bushra Bibi, the wife of Prime Minister Imran Khan, visited a rehabilitation centre in Punjab capital on Sunday and mingled with mentally-disabled women and children housed there.
The first lady was on a visit to the Fountain House along with a friend of hers. Bushra took a tour of the facility during which she was briefed on medical facilities provided to the patients.
Female patients of the Fountain House were happy to find the PM’s wife and shared their problems with with her.
Bushra’s visit to Fountain House comes a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan laid the foundation stone for a shelter project in the city — the first of five in Lahore.
“We are committed to building a social net for our poor citizens so everyone has a shelter over his/her head and access to health and education,” the PM wrote on Twitter on Saturday.
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In seven to ten days, the government would launch its project for the alleviation of poverty, which would be “unlike any other in Pakistan”.
According to Radio Pakistan, the shelter building will be based upon a “state of the art” design with simplicity in order to improve its utility, besides availability of separate facilities to ensure the best usage of the place.
It will also include construction of multi-purpose halls for imparting training and holding of public awareness programmes on vital social objectives.
