RAWALPINDI: Work on Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) costing Rs1.27 billion would be completed soon while an international standard AstroTurf would be laid at Government Waqarun Nisa College for Women, said Punjab Sports Board Steering Committee Chairman Muhammad Hanif Abbasi here Sunday. Talking to APP, he said that state-of-the-art facility would be ready for the city and its adjoining areas in 2018. He added that a 265-bed urology and transplant centre was being constructed for which the provincial government had so far spent Rs1 billion. Meanwhile, Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Khawaja Salman Rafique, who visited the under-construction RIUKT last week, had directed the authorities to work in two shifts to complete the project at the earliest. The RIUKT project was inaugurated in 2012 by Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif.

Source: Pakistan Today February 18, 2018 15:45 UTC