LAHORE: The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital has launched its Zakat collection campaign 2019.

A press release says the hospital is providing financially supported diagnostic and treatment facilities to almost 75 to 80 per cent of cancer patients and this requires a huge budget as the treatment is very expensive. The hospital has already spent over Rs 39 billion on free treatment of deserving cancer patients during the last 24 years. “Our budget for the year 2019 is Rs 13 billion; out of which Rs 8.5 billion is to be met from public donations and Zakat and the remaining, from revenue generated from hospital services. The total amount of Zakat collected will only be spent on the free treatment of deserving cancer patients,” the release said.

Published in Dawn, April 26th, 2019