The Pakistani community settled in Norway and Sweden has contributed huge donations to purchase necessary equipment for the Trauma Centre, Sialkot. This was stated by Sialkot District Nazim Mian Naeem Javed, while addressing a fund-raising meeting held here on Wednesday night. He said the Citizen Community Board (CCB) would manage funds amounting to Rs 9 million from the philanthropists and well-off persons of Sialkot for equipping the Trauma Centre with latest machinery.
Adding the construction work of its building has been completed at the Allama Iqbal Hospital, and it would be equipped with MRI, CT Scan, X-ray and other requisites at a cost of Rs 100 million.
The District Nazim said that steps have been taken to install insulator at the Allama Iqbal Hospital at the cost of Rs 2 million for disposing of the hospital waste.
He said all hospitals and clinics had been directed to avoid throwing hospital waste outside, adding the installation of insulator would help prevent the citizen from certain diseases besides, all clinics and hospitals waste would be disposed of at one place in near future.
Naeem Javed said the district government had provided medicines worth Rs 40 million to district, tehsil hospitals, basic health units, and rural health centres for ensuring free medicines to the poor and deserving persons in the district.
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