KARACHI, Nov 28: The Karachi Institute for Heart Diseases took a leap towards achieving its goal of starting its operations by the end of the year when it gained control of three important machines, according to a spokesman for the city government.

Talking to Dawn on Saturday, the spokesman said that angiography, ETT and echo-doppler machines had already reached the hospital premises in Federal B Area and that installation of the equipment would start on Tuesday. The installation work was expected to take 15 days, he said.

He claimed that by spending only Rs29.5 million on the three capital-intensive machines, the city government had shown that some officials put interest of the masses before their own.

The spokesman added that the machines had been imported from Japan in a short period of only three months and 20 days. The spokesman said that the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation had approved a load of 500KVA. Initially, the KIHD's application had been rejected on the grounds that there were capacity constraints in the area.