Staff Reporter
Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan Monday said the government had decided to set up four new hospitals in different localities of the Rawalpindi Division with overall capacity of 650 beds, which would hopefully be operational by 2022-23.
The minister said, he along with parliamentarians Sadaqat Abbasi, Raja Saghir, Wasiq Qayyum and Haji Amjad was making all-out efforts for early establishment of the new facilities and “hopefully these will start working in 2022-23,” an Aviation Division press release said.
Sarwar said a 100-bed hospital, having Emergency Section and Operation Theater, would be built with a cost of Rs 500 million at the city entrance near Chakri, for which 93 acres of government land had been allotted.
A 300-bed hospital would be set up along the Ring Road near Rawat, while a 100-bed facility was being built near Kahuta.
