LARKANA: Expressing the hope that the proposed Larkana unit of the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) would start functioning shortly, Larkana Commissioner Abbas Baloch and Mayor Aslam Shaikh have handed over possession of a spacious portion of the old hostel building of the Govt Degree College to the SIUT management. The building had previously been in the use of the Sindh Rangers.

Prof Ghulam Sarwar Qureshi, the principal of the college, told Dawn on Thursday that the possession was handed over to the SIUT Sukkur chapter head, Dr Iqbal Daudpoto, at a ceremony held in Larkana late on Wednesday evening. Necessary directives to this effect were issued by the director of education (colleges), he added.

Speaking at the ceremony, the commissioner termed the development ‘historic’ saying that a vast population of upper Sindh, as well as parts of Balochistan and Punjab, would soon start getting SIUT services free of cost in this city.

A token donation of Rs500,000 and Rs100,000 on behalf of MNA Faryal Talpur and Larkana commissioner, respectively, was given to Dr Daudpoto by the mayor, who appealed to philanthropists and the general public to donate generously to the fund set up for the Larkana SIUT.

Sources said that the new branch would start functioning within a couple of months.

Published in Dawn, June 9th, 2017