QUETTA, Feb 11: Balochistan’s Chief Secretary K.B. Rind announced on Friday that a well-equipped kidney centre and hospital would soon be set up in the provincial capital under the auspices of the UAE-based Shaikh Zayed Trust.

The announcement was made at a ceremony held here in connection with the establishment of Al-Shifa Eye Hospital in Quetta.

The chairman of Al-Shifa Trust, General (Retd) Jahan Dad Khan, Red Crescent provincial chief Sikandar Hayat Jamali and Chiltan Town Nazim Mir Ismail Lehri were present on the occasion.

Mr Rind said that already a hospital had been opened in Dalbandin with the financial assistance of the UAE ruler. He said the government was making “all out efforts” to provide better health facilities to the people of the province.

While expressing happiness over the setting up of a modern eye hospital by Al-Shifa Trust in Quetta, the chief secretary pledged to extend all help and cooperation to the hospital on behalf of the government.

He said the government had on the request of the trust allotted 8 acres of land worth Rs104 million to the trust for the construction of an international level eye hospital in Quetta.

He said the government had also provided water, power and gas facilities along with the land.

Gen Jahan Dad Khan thanked the provincial government for providing land to the trust and allowing it to establish an eye hospital there.