The hospital is being built at a cost of Rs17 billion and a request for additional Rs50 million has been submitted to the Sindh government to complete the project soon, he added. Dahar was presiding over a meeting regarding the construction of the hospital at his office on Thursday.
The slow pace of the construction has been noticed and the relevant contractor has been warned, he said. The out-patient departments will be made functional in the first phase, he claimed. The other wards will start operating gradually, he added. “The health department will take control of the health projects in the province,” he said. Reports regarding the construction of the hospital should be submitted in two days, he demanded to speed up the construction.
The hospital will provide general OPD, consulting clinics, lab and other diagnostic facilities, blood bank, specialised facilities such as CT scan, MRI, dialysis unit, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2015.