PESHAWAR, May 11: The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) will construct four hospitals — one each in Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan and Faisalabad — to provide quality health-care and diagnostic facilities to employees.

Brig (retd) Mohammad Najmus Saqib, general manager, administration, Wapda, told APP after inaugurating Wapda hospital at the Wapda House here on Thursday. All hospitals will be completed within a two-and-a-half-year period, he added.

Wapda has a 250-bed hospital in Lahore and nine 50-bedded hospitals are functioning with various formations, and a 20-bed hospital in Mangla besides 22 dispensaries all over the country.

Earlier, speaking as chief guest at the hospital inauguration ceremony, Brig Saqib said Wapda is the second largest organisation in terms of employees in the country. The establishment of the new hospital at Peshawar, he said, will improve health service facilities of the employees of Pesco, Tesco and Shydo.

Brig Saqib said that massive improvements have been brought in Wapda’s health services in the last couple of years, adding that reactivation of dispensaries, induction of specialist doctors and paramedical staff, purchasing of equipment and provision of quality medicine had raised its budget to Rs2.5 billion.—APP