Infrastructure development: government taking private sector on board: Bokhari

Government believes in promoting infrastructure development in the country through the private sector's participation and we are fully committed to promote public-private partnership in the country. This was stated by Senator Syed Nayyar Hussain Bokhari, Leader of the House in Senate in his address to the Investors' Forum on Health and Educational Projects through Public Private Partnership modality, organised by Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) here.
Bokhari also said that the PPP-led government in Pakistan is focusing on increasing infrastructure development projects in the country by inviting investments from the private sector. On the occasion, Ghulam Murtaza Satti, Head IPDF said that government has decided to establish modern Liver Disease and Organ Transplant (CLOT) centre and National Institute of Dentistry in Pakistan, Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on public private partnership while ensuring affordability for the needy patients.
He informed that the centre is to be completed at an approximate cost of approx. $US 12 million and would be a 100-bed facility spread over a covered area of nearly 143,000 SQFT and would have state-of-the-art operation theatres, outdoor wards, post-operative care to be manned by leading foreign and national organ transplant surgeons.
The centre would serve as the first liver transplant facility to be built under public-private partnership in the country. However, after being constructed on a Build Operate Transfer (BOT) basis for a certain concession period, the centre would be reverted to PIMS at no cost. A fund will be established to provide modern organ transplant facilities to poor and needy patients.-PR