RIUK to be ready by 2018

Punjab Minister for Specialised Healthcare and Medical Education Kh Salman Rafiq has said that state-of-the-art Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplantation (RIUK) is being constructed in Rawalpindi at a cost of Rs 4 billion for providing best treatment facilities to Urology patients and Kidney Transplantation.
He said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has issued instruction to the concerned departments for early completion of the project. He stated this while presiding over a meeting to review the pace of work on the construction of the RIUK, at Civil Secretariat on Thursday. Besides, Hanif Abbasi, Special Secretary Health Dr Sajid Mehmood Chohan, Additional Secretary Health Development Ms. Mussarat Jabeen, Chief Planning Officer Abdul Haq Bhatti. Member Health P&D Dr Shabana Haider, Project Director Professor Dr Mumtaz and officers of Building Department also attended the meeting.
Hanif Abbasi said that Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has established a number of state-of-the-art health facilities in Rawalpindi including Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, upgradation and expansion of Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Holy Family Hospital and construction of Rawalpindi Institute of Urology. He said that people from Rawalpindi division, Azad Kashmir and KPK are getting benefit from these health facilities.
He said that RIUK, after completion would also be a big source of modern treatment and transplant for the kidney patients. It was informed that civil work of RIUK will be completed by December 2017. Letter of interest have been called through advertisements in the newspapers for HVAC system and electrification of the project. For this purpose pre-qualification of the firms would be carried out.
Kh. Salman Rafiq directed that instead of traditional working style the concerned departments should works on the project on fast track and revised PC-1 should be gotten approved from the P&D Department for remaining civil works. He directed to constitute purchase committee, human resource committee and other committees for the procurement of medical equipment, recruitment of human resource etc for the project.
The building department was directed to present cash flow plan, work plan and timeline for the ongoing civil works on the project. Kh. Salman Rafiq revealed that government would provide all required financial resources for completion of the project. He said that RIUK is a mega project which would be made functional in 2018. He said that Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif is taking personal interest in the completion of the project so that more medical facilities could be available for the people of the province.