KARACHI, June 10: The Senior Finance Minister, Syed Sardar Ahmed, while announcing the Sindh budget for the fiscal year 2005-06 in the provincial assembly on Friday evening told that the grant-in-aid to the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi had been enhanced from Rs195 million to Rs300 million.

In his budget speech, the minister said that Rs22.84 million had been set aside for providing 17 ambulances, Rs202.282 million for the purchase of equipment and furniture, Rs467.68 million for purchase of medicine for hospitals in the province.

—PPI

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