PESHAWAR, Oct 21: A new angiography machine will be installed at the Lady Reading Hospital at a cost of Rs80 million to speed up the tertiary care services to the cardiac patients, health officials said.

They said the hospital’s cardiology department was the only healthcare unit in the public sector in the province which provided all the investigation and intervention procedures to the patients.

The first angiography machine was installed at the LRH in 1984, which had completed its life, and another one in 1993, which often broke down due to the load on it, they said. They said about 1,200 intervention procedures were performed at the department annually.

They said the machine, costing Rs80 million, would be installed and operated in 12 months.

The department, they said, was allocated only Rs13 million in the annual development programme.

They said efforts would be made to arrange the funds through  inter-sector reappropriation of funds after the third quarter of the current financial year.

They said Germany had shown interest in funding the project a few years back and the donors would also be approached in this regard.