KARACHI, Aug 16: The establishment of orthopaedic trauma centre (accident and emergency centre) in Civil Hospital Karachi with a cost of Rs1.4 billion has been approved and its construction will start soon.

This was stated by Naib Nazim Nasreen Jalil at a rehabilitation camp set up for handicapped at the Civil Hospital, on Wednesday. She said that the federal and provincial governments would jointly fund the project.

The camp was arranged by the Ortho Rehab Society in collaboration with the Feroza Hashim Foundation.

On the occasion, Ms Jalil announced bearing expenses of artificial limbs for eight patients under ‘adopt a patient’ scheme proposed during the ceremony while Feroza Hashim Foundation provided artificial appendage to 80 patients free of cost.

The naib nazim called upon philanthropists to join hands with the government, individuals and organisations engaged in providing healthcare facilities to people, as government alone could not do the job.

She said the city government was strengthening its departments and laying special emphasis on health sector, citing example of Abbasi Shaheed Hospital which, she claimed, had been made the best hospital of the city.

Dow University of Health Sciences Vice-Chancellor Prof Masood Hameed, Civil Hospital MS Dr Kalim Butt, Abu Shamim Arif, Prof Younus Soomro, Hashim Sheikh and others were also present on the occasion.—PPI