Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has launched a new state-of-the-art Jinnah Medical Complex (JMC) in Islamabad, saying that the medical facility will provide 100% free best healthcare services to deserving patients. PM Shehbaz broke ground on the JMC, which he said would be one of the best medical facilities in the region. "This is the gift of the coalition government not only for the residents of Rawalpindi and Islamabad but for the people from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan as well," he said while addressing the ceremony.
Premier said that once completed, the medical complex would offer the world's best healthcare facilities with various sections of diseases related to heart, kidneys, lungs, cancer, and others. He said that a modern first aid emergency section would also be established at the hospital with an air ambulance service for patients in hard-to-reach areas. PM Shehbaz pledged that nursing schools and laboratories would also be established in the hospital and the deserving patients would avail 100% free lab tests facility.
The prime minister emphasised that this was the same model envisioned by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif to provide free medical facilities only to the poor and on-payment facilities to the well-off people at the same place. He specifically thanked Habib Bank Limited (HBL) Chairman Sultan Ali Allana and Prince Rahim Agha Khan for providing technical consultancy support free of cost for the.