Karachi US Ambassador to Pakistan Richard G Olson and Sindh Minister for Works and Services Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani marked the beginning of the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Jacobabad Municipal Project, a water, waste water and solid waste management project, by planting saplings at the Jacobabad water filtration plant on Tuesday.
They were joined by Consul General Michael Dodman, US Agency for International Development Mission Director Greg Gottlieb and other local officials.
Ambassador Olson and US officials also visited the construction site of the new US-funded hospital in Jacobabad.
Speaking at the water filtration plant, the ambassador said: “We expect this project to be completed by September 2015. It will provide much needed clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to more than 200,000 residents of Jacobabad.”
He added, “Higher quality and more efficient water and sanitation services are a must for a healthy community. That’s why the US government is partnering with the Sindh government to develop more effective and transparent water management systems that will result in the improved delivery of key municipal services.”
The Jacobabad Municipal Project, part of a $66 million Sindh Municipal Services Programme, will rehabilitate and expand the existing outdated infrastructure to provide clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to more than 200,000 residents in Jacobabad. The project has been designed to serve the city’s anticipated needs until 2030.
Ambassador Olson and other US officials also visited the construction site of the new hospital in Jacobabad that has received support from USAID.
Olson previously broke ground at the site on February 13, 2013, and returned on Tuesday to observe the project’s progress, according to a statement released by the US consulate general.
When completed, the hospital will provide access to modern medical services to nearly 1.2 million people in its 133 bed in-patient facility, housing a fully equipped outpatient department, diagnostic facility, emergency room, maternal and child health wing, operating theaters, a cardiac care/intensive care unit, patient recovery and treatment wards, hepatitis ward, and dialysis area.
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