HYDERABAD, May 31: District Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that he will lay foundation stones next month of three health and medical facilities — a hospital in Qasimabad, the other on the Hali Road and a trauma centre.

Thirsty-five beds would be added to the Lady Dufferen Hospital which has only 85 beds, he said while speaking at the foundation-stone laying ceremony of Khadija Hospital in Latifabad unit No. 8 on Wednesday.

This hospital is being constructed at a cost of Rs10 million. In the first phase, it will have 10 beds, in the second, 50 while in the third phase, 100 beds.

About the trauma centre, he said, it would have an helipad and specialist doctors to provide immediate treatment to victims of natural calamities and accidents. Kanwar Naveed Jamil announced that the district government was determined to establish a network of schools and hospitals in all the four talukas of the district.

EDO works and services Abdul Haleem Ghori, MQM’s sector in-charge, nazims and naib nazims of union councils and a large number of people of the area were present on the occasion.—Bureau