RAWALPINDI:Chief Executive Officer(CEO) District Health Authority Dr Faiza Kanwal has said that despite financial constraints, 95 per cent of the Tehsil Headquarters (THQ), Hospital Potohar Town, had been completed to help ailing segments of the society.
The CEO told reporter that work on the Rs.647.78 million health project was in full swing that would hopefully be completed soon. She informed that the Punjab government hadspent Rs 450.509 million for the construction of the Hospital so far out of a total of Rs 473.319 mln approved for the capital site by the Provincial Development Working Party, whereas the rest of Rs 174.461 million would be utilized for the procurement of medical equipment and machinery, she told. Dr Faiza further added that the government had released an amount of Rs 50 mln in 2021-22, out of which Rs 39.283 had been utilized. She informed that modern healthcare facilities, including emergency, surgery, indoor and outdoor patients,s would be set up, still unavailable in any tehsil level hospital. The CEO expressed hope that the state-of-the-art 100-bed Hospital would lessen the burden on city allied hospitals.