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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust (SKMT) Hospital in Karachi is on target to open in 2023.
On a social media website Twitter, the prime minister said that the cancer hospital will be “twice the size” of SKMT Lahore and “will be equipped with all the latest diagnostic and treatment facilities. It will service Sindh and southern Balochistan,” PM Imran added.
Visited the building site of SKMT Karachi. InshaAllah on target to open in 2023. It will be twice the size of SKMT Lahore and will be equipped with all the latest diagnostic and treatment facilities. It will service Sindh and southern Balochistan. pic.twitter.com/nFcBnL91Y3
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 18, 2021
Earlier, the prime minister had reported feeling pleased watching construction start on the Karachi branch of the hospital in November 2020.
“I have this great feeling watching construction start on SKMT Karachi. InshaAllah, it will be the biggest cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as being equipped with the latest machines,” he wrote at the time, while sharing pictures of the construction site.
I have this great feeling watching construction start on SKMT Karachi. InshaAllah, it will be the biggest cancer hospital in Pakistan as well as being equipped with the latest machines. pic.twitter.com/e5TY3eF8aa
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) November 21, 2020
The prime minister broke ground for the hospital, located in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area in 2016.
The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, established in the memory of PM Imran Khan’s mother who succumbed to cancer in 1985, has established a number of hospitals, laboratories, and research centers all over Pakistan.
The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore was the first specialized cancer facility in the entire region. It was inaugurated on December 29, 1994.