The first phase of Pakistan Kidney & Liver Transplantation and Research Institute (PKLI) will be functional by the end of December 2017, Punjab Minister for Specialized Healthcare & Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique, said.
“The PKLI which is being established at a cost of Rs.20 billion, would be a state-of-the- art and international standards’ health institution,” Salman said, while presiding over a meeting in the PKLI Secretariat, to review the progress on the project and other matters related to hiring of surgeons, physicians and paramedics for the institution, here Thursday.
President PKLI Dr. Saeed Akhtar, Director General Punjab Human Organs Transplant Authority Prof. Faisal Masood, Additional Secretary Development Shahid-ur-Rehman, Chief Planning Officer Health Department Abdul Haq Bhatti, Additional Secretary Regulations Ikram Ullah Niazi, Asim Hafeez from Finance Department, Chief Executive Officer of PKLI Wazir Muhammad, GM Finance PKLI Salim A. Sheikh and GM (HR) Rashid Ghafoor attended the meeting.
Khawaja Salman Rafique further said that free treatment as well as transplantation facilities would be extended to the poor patients of liver and kidney diseases.
