ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan and Afghan Minister of Public Health Dr Ferozuddin Feroz inaugurated Muhammad Ali Jinnah Hospital in Kabul with a bed capacity of 200 on Saturday. Afghanistan Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish graced the occasion as the chief guest. The 200-bed state-of-art Jinnah Hospital, completed at a cost of US $24 million, was officially handed over by Pakistan to the government of Afghanistan, said a statement issued by the Foreign Office. Ali Muhammad Khan expressed hope that Jinnah Hospital would be a substantial contribution to the health sector of Afghanistan. On the occasion, Pakistan’s envoy Zahid Nasrullah Khan said Jinnah Hospital was a flagship project of Pakistan’s US $ one billion development assistance to Afghanistan in pursuance of Pakistan’s policy objective of deepening and broadening people to people connections between the two countries.

Source: Pakistan Today April 20, 2019 13:59 UTC