Imran Khan starts building 2nd cancer centre

[Edevelop]

PESHAWAR – Retired cricket star and Tehreek-e-Insaf political party chief Imran Khan has begun construction on a second Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Pakistan, officials said this week.Imran founded the first facility in Lahore in 1994. The proposed one will be in Peshawar. The facilities are named for his late mother.

"The hospital is being built on six acres (50 kanal) of land in Hayatabad Township to be completed over a period of three years," said Dr. Asim Yousaf, consultant oncologist at the cancer centre in Lahore.

The first part of the Peshawar facility will be completed in one year at the cost of Rs. 2 billion (US $20.4m), he said, adding that patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Afghanistan will receive free treatment there, he said. The rest of the hospital will take another two years to build.

"Imran's decision to build the hospital in Peshawar is due to the fact that more than 40,000 patients from KP and FATA had visited the [cancer centre] in Lahore since 1994," he said.

Imran Khan starts building 2nd cancer centre - Central Asia Online

 

[explorer9]

Great Job done, His accountability will boost the project, lesson for other politicians...

 

[Cheetah786]

Great Job done, His accountability will boost the project, lesson for other politicians...

He started all this cause of his Mother nothing to do with politics.

 

[explorer9]

He started all this cause of his Mother nothing to do with politics.

He started the project when he was sporting celebrity, now he is a politician, if few of the politicians take a lesson from his work Pakistan may have numerous specialty Hospitals and research centers (most importantly where poor people can get free treatment

 

[Al Bhatti]

The number of politicians we have, if each of them and their sons and daughters build one world class hospital or world class school (KG to grade 12) each providing free health care service and free education, the society can change big time and also the economy.

But this is Pakistan where this will never happen as far as a citizen can see.