RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday inaugurated Hepatitis Treatment Filter Clinic at the site of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute & Research Center and also laid the foundation stone of the main building of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute & Research Center. With state of the art machinery, this filter clinic will provide modern and best medical facilities to hepatitis patients whereas Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute will provide modern and best medical facilities to kidney and liver patients with liver transplantation facility as well.

While inaugurating Hepatitis Filter Clinic and laying the foundation stone of the main building of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute & Research Center the Chief Minister said that such filter clinics would be set up on war footings in all 36 districts of the province and all these clinics would start providing medical facilities to hepatitis patients at the end of the current year.

The Chief Minister said that even if they had to import machinery for these filter clinics they would import it by planes and would provide any kind of resources for all this. The Chief Minister said that fast-track work is being done on the historical project of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute & Research Center and its first phase would be completed on 25th December of the current year and here first operation of liver transplantation would also be possible.

This is the success of Pakistan, he added. Here poor and deserving patients would get free medical treatment and free liver transplantation facility would also be provided to them. The Chief Minister said that this hospital had to start its working on 14th August 2017 but some reasons caused delay in it and now it would start working at the end of the year. The Chief Minister said that the government is providing billions of rupees for this project. “Besides God, I am also answerable to the people of this province therefore, I will continue spending every single penny for the welfare of the people,” he added.

The Chief Minister said that instead of Punjab this project has been named as Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplant Institute & Research Center because this institute would provide medical facilities to people from Mehran Valley, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan and Punjab.

This hospital would provide free medical facilities to poor and deserving patients. The Chief Minister said that serving the dismal humanity is such a profit which cannot be measured. All those institutes and people who are in one way or the other contributing for the establishment of this institute are actually playing their part in serving the humanity.

The Chief Minister said that profit is earned in projects like roads, flyovers, motorways, metros, and other infrastructure but the profit earned from the establishment of such institutes is incomparable.

The Chief Minister said that there would be no protest in Hepatitis Filter Clinics and all the doctors, nurses and other paramedical staff would serve the humanity from the core of their hearts and would remain present at every time. The Chief Minister appealed to the young doctors to end occasional protests and serve humanity. The Chief Minister said that it is not appropriate that patients are dying in the hospitals due to non-availability of doctors whereas young doctors are shutting down indoors and outdoors of hospitals and protesting on roads and streets.

The Chief Minister said that he would not let anyone do corruption of a single penny. Those who tried looting in Saaf Pani project would be held accountable. The Chief Minister thanked Provincial Health Ministers Khawaja Salman Rafique, Khawaja Imran Nazir, Provincial Finance Minister Dr Ayesha Ghous Pasha, Chief Secretary, Chairman P&D, Secretaries Health, CEO Punjab Infrastructure Development Authority and the whole team for their services.