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Government would provide all possible resources to South Punjab to raise living standard of the masses, said Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Shahbaz Sharif while presiding over a meeting at Tayyip Erdogan Hospital on Thursday.
Shahbaz said the hospital constructed with the help of the Turkish government would consist of 500 beds and patients from other cities would also benefit from it.
He said all arrangements for the hospital had been completed which would be operational from June 18.
The CM said staff, including doctors, would arrive at the hospital from Turkey to provide their services in the hospital at least for one year.
The CM also approved provision of gas to Emine Erdogan Danish Care Girls High School at a cost of Rs 44 million.
He directed the administration to install solar panel system instead of generators to provide uninterrupted power supply to the school.
He hinted at construction of a similar school for boys for which funds were already earmarked.
He directed to start bus service from Muzaffargarh city to the hospital and school directly.
Shahbaz ordered to depute medical staff for 50 houses of Turkish Model village with foolproof security arrangements, including installation of CCTV cameras.
Earlier, Health Secretary Ejaz Muneer and Education Secretary Abdul Jabbar Shaheen gave briefing to the CM over construction and arrangements at the hospital and school.
The CM was informed that Emine Erdogan Danish Care Girls School would start work from upcoming September under supervision of the Danish School Authority and Care Foundation.
The CM said that the PML-N government of has given the gift of Metro bus project to citizens of Multan, adding that Metro Bus project of Multan will be completed within one year with the cost of Rs 32 billion and it will be 32 kilometres long.
He said that this project will be completed during the current fiscal year.
Shahbaz said that the government is giving special attention to Multan and also completing the incomplete projects of former PM Yousaf Raza Gillani.
Shahbaz has a lot of gifts for South Punjab | Pakistan Today
He also said that Rs270 million had been allocated for the extension and development of the Multan Institute of Cardiology.
Sharif also inaugurated the Dera Ghazi Khan medical college. He said it would be based on the Turkish model. He said medical services would be provided in south Punjab transparently and efficiently. He also briefed the media and members of the Provincial and National Assemblies on development projects underway in Dera Ghazi Khan division.
The chief minister approved two-lane highways from Dera Ghazi Khan to Fort Munroe and from Dera Ghazi Khan to Muzaffargarh. He allocated Rs5 billion for the project.
He said that a chair lift project in Fort Munroe should be completed expediently, which would further its popularity as a tourist site.
Sharif also laid the foundation stone of a neurosurgery ward, burn unit and a children ward at a teaching hospital in Dera Ghazi Khan.
Urban development: Shahbaz opens metro bus project in Multan – The Express Tribune
