LAHORE, Sept 26: The federal government has released the funds for the National Institute of Kidney diseases (WWF Block) which is likely to become functional next month.

Sources told this agency that funds had been released on the intervention of Governor Khalid Maqbool, who recently visited the Sheikh Zayed Medical Complex and took note of the plight of poor kidney patients who could not meet the huge expenses of dialysis twice a week.

The funds released by the federal government would help the poor patients get a subsidized facility of dialysis at the hospital while Baitul Mal would be approached for providing medical treatment to extremely poor patients, the sources said. — APP