Healthcare facilities: ‘90% of Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) patients receive free treatment’

LAHORE: The Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) is providing quality healthcare facilities to cardiac patients despite limited resources, PIC Chief Executive Bilal Zakariya said on Tuesday.

Addressing a press conference at the PIC, he said on average 200,000 patients received treatment at the hospital annually even though “there were only 347 beds at the institute.”

“The budget allocation for purchase of medicines during 2012-13 was Rs525 million… this has been increased up to Rs574 million for 2013-14 by the government,” he said.

Zakariya said 90 per cent of the patients were treated for free.

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