Pakistan
PM Shehbaz Sharif inagurates Saleem Memorial Trust Hospital in Lahore
"People in need would be given free or partly free of cost treatment through cross-subsidy or donation funds."
Lahore: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday inaugurated state-of-the-art Saleem Memorial Trust Hospital in Lahore.
During his visit, he was briefed by the hospital's management about the facilities available at the hospital, including treatment facilities for cancer, heart diseases, dialysis, and CT Scan. He also went to the various departments of the hospital.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony of Saleem Memorial Trust Hospital in Lahore, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has praised generous philanthropists for setting up a modernly equipped world-class hospital in the private sector in Lahore, which will also provide free of cost medical treatment to poor and deserving people as well.
"I believe that the generous people who have donated to establish this hospital have earned [a place in] heaven in this world and in the hereafter," PM Shehbaz said.
PM Shehbaz Sharif said that this hospital will serve the aggrieved. He said that the machinery, equipment for radiology, oncology, treatment for cardiac diseases, and all other arrangements at the hospital are world-class.
He thanked all the doctors who have come from Pakistan and abroad to serve in the hospital.
The premier said that those who can afford the treatment would pay the entire expense for the medical facilities at the hospital and people in need would be given free or partly free of cost treatment through cross-subsidy or donation funds.
PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the PML-N had established Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute following the same analogy and invested billions of rupees in the project.