KHAIRPUR, Dec 30: Chief Minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah has said that a medical teaching hospital is being established in Khairpur in order to provide improved health facilities to local people.

Addressing the foundation-stone laying ceremony of Khairpur Medical College affiliated with Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), he said on Sunday that the PPP government had been making efforts for providing better health services and quality education to people that was why the budget allocation these sectors had been increased.

The CM said establishment of the medical college in Khairpur would facilitate higher medical education to youngsters, especially girls, of city. Speaking about the measles cases reported in the province, the CM said he had issued directives to the health secretary to take special steps in this connection.

He said vaccination should have been done before the outbreak of the disease. LUMHS Jamshoro Vice-Chancellor Prof Mashoor Alam Shah, Health Secretary Aftab Ahmed Khatri, DC Khairpur and Commissioner Sukkur Mohammad Abbas Baloch and LUMHS Jamshoro Dean of Surgery Prof Abdul Sattar Memon also addressed the ceremony.

Earlier, the CM laid the foundation stone of Khairpur Medical College.