KARACHI, April 26: Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan has said that availability of modern health care facilities would help eliminate quackery.

In this regard, he appreciated the headway made in the private sector along with the government efforts.

He was talking to a delegation of US-based Pakistani doctors, led by Dr Moin Hussaini and Dr Batool Hussaini, which called on him at Governor’s House on Thursday.

Dr Ibad said that the government was making all-out efforts for the provision of modern health care facilities in the backward and far-flung areas.

The delegation apprised the governor about their plan to set up Karachi Trauma Centre in Nazimabad, with the joint cooperation of Pakistan Health Care Centre, Mobile Eye Services of Pakistan and American Care International Foundation at a cost of $10 million and to be completed by 2009.

He was informed that prior to the project’s completion, multiple primary care centres were being setup in city's different parts and two of them had already started functioning. At the centre, they said, emergency medical services would be provided without ascertaining the patient's financial condition and no advance payment would be demanded.

The centre will have 200 beds, trauma surgical ICU, burns ward and ICU-level ambulances.—APP