KARACHI, Aug 26: City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Saturday inaugurated regular treatment facilities at the second largest state-run heart diseases hospital in the metropolis, the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases.

He said that he believed in concrete work and not in just publicity-oriented steps. He said that the hospital during the last three months had carried out angiography of 830 patients. He said that modern machinery worth Rs100 million had been purchased for the hospital and 340 staff had been appointed.

The nazim announced to run the 120-bed hospital in three shifts. He said that the city government would pay all expenditures of this modern hospital, which had already stock of medicine for one year use.

He said that the first vital injection for heart patients costing Rs5,000 would be provided free to patients at this hospital. He said that angiography cost Rs30,000 in other city hospitals, but the KIHD would charge just Rs3,000 for it. He said that angioplasty costing Rs175,000 in other hospitals would be provided here for just Rs35,000.—PPI