FAISALABAD, Pakistan: The Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Saturday inaugurated various health projects in Faisalabad including the Asia’s biggest Children Hospital.
The Children Hospital is constructed at Jhang Road with an estimated cost of Rs 5 billion. It has consisted of 1,000 beds with modern facilities.
The first phase of this project has been completed with Rs 1 billion and it includes Emergency Ward of 200 beds and Outdoor Patients Department (OPD).
Meanwhile, the Punjab Chief Minister also inaugurated Haseeb Shaheed Hospital to cater to the medical needs of Eastern Side of the City. He also visited the Emergency and OPD of the Children Hospital and reviewed the facilities provided to the patients in the emergency and OPD.
Shahbaz Sharif also attended a meeting in which he was briefed by the health officials about the progress of these health related projects in Faisalabad.
Earlier after arriving in Faisalabad, the Chief Minster visited the residence of MNA Shahbaz Babar in Samundri, and went to the residence of his cousin Inspector Fida Hussain who was martyred in an encounter with terrorists last month.
The Chief Minister expressed his deep sense of condolence and said that he is actually our hero who had laid down his life for peaceful future of the coming generations.