KARACHI, May 22: The Provincial Minister for Planning and Development, Syed Shoaib Ahmed Bukhari, along with MPAs Muhammad Hussain Khan and Yousuf Munir Sheikh laid the foundation stone of a 100-bed hospital in Gadap Town. The hospital on 112,700 sq-ft of land due and costing Rs63.7 million will be completed in 15 months. It will have all necessary facilities including an OPD block, medical ward, operation theatre, dental surgery unit, an intensive care unit, a separate ward for women, laboratories and an administration block.

Shoaib Bukhari said the hospital would provide health facilities to the thousands of villagers of Gadap Town belonging to Hussain Ghabol, Ratho, Jokio, Kathor and Kankar goths.

He said the government was trying to provide equal facilities to all people of Sindh without discrimination between urban and rural localities.

Former provincial minister, Muhammad Hussain Khan said that with the hospital’s completion, the people of Gadap would be spared of period trips to the Civil, Jinnah and Abbasi Shaheed hospitals. “They will get health facilities at their doorstep,” he concluded.—PPI