LAHORE: The Punjab government has released Rs300m for establishing an institute of kidney & liver transplant in Lahore.

It has already allotted 50 acre land for the institution on the Bedian Road. The foundation laying ceremony for the Rs12bn institute will be held within a month.

Pakistan Kidney & Liver Institute Trust Chairman Prof Saeed Akhtar received the cheque for Rs300m in a ceremony organised here on Sunday. Prof Saeed is also head of the Organs Transplant Department of the Al-Shifa International Islamabad. Health Secretary Jawad Rafique Malik, and Special Secretary Finance Department Ahmed Raza Sarwar were also present on this occasion besides Khawaja Salman Rafique.

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The participants of the ceremony were told that after completion of the institute, Rs6bn would be required annually to run the hospital. The government would provide 25pc of the total amount while rest of the expenditure would be met by the trust.

Prof Saeed Akhtar, who was also working in USA as surgeon of liver & kidney transplantation, said more than 100 liver transplants had been carried out at Al-Shifa International Islamabad successfully.

Published in Dawn January 12th , 2014

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