KARACHI: The Sindh government on Monday decided to establish a facility in Hyderabad to be controlled by the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), officials said.

The decision was taken during a meeting of the SIUT director, Dr Adibul Hasan Rizvi, with provincial Health Minister Dr Sikandar Mandhro at the former’s office in SIUT.

Officials in the Sindh health ministry said the minister showed his keen interest in setting up the SIUT’s fully equipped facility in Sindh’s second largest city, which would facilitate the people hailing from remote districts, thus providing them convenience as well as reducing the load on the SIUT in Karachi.

Officials said a team comprising senior doctors affiliated with the SIUT would visit Hyderabad next week and submit a feasibility report to the health ministry about the new scheme.

“Once the report is submitted, the project would be finalised as per procedure,” said Dr Mandhro.

Officials said the Sindh government had resolved to provide healthcare facilities to every district of Sindh “as modern and efficient” as being provided in Karachi.

They said the government had already signed a memorandum of understanding with the SIUT vis-a-vis establishing a cardiovascular facility in Hyderabad and the new scheme would tangibly augment the existing modest healthcare facilities in Hyderabad.

The SIUT has an efficient facility in Sukkur while the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences is another competent hospital particularly engaged in liver transplantation, which is working in Khairpur district.

“Such a facility in Hyderabad will particularly facilitate the people from Sindh’s central and southern districts,” said an official in the health ministry.

Published in Dawn, August 22nd, 2017