GILGIT CITY – Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman will inaugurate a fifty-bed first ever cardiac hospital of Pakistan’s northernmost administrative territory on Tuesday.
The area notables and public representatives will attend the function.
Adviser to CM Shams Mir said the project would be completed at an estimated cost of Rs 1.5 billion which were allocated in Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP). The hospital would be completed in a record time of 18 months, he added.
Mir said the project was included in PSDP during the era of PML-N government but since then it was pending.
The sitting government of GB has asked the federal government to put this project in PSDP keeping in view its importance and the problems of GB people, he added.
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The adviser said that according to a survey more than 10,000 people in GB were suffering from cardiac diseases and forced to visit Islamabad, Karachi or Lahore to get treatment which was beyond financial approach of many of them.
