LAHORE, June 05(ABC): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Sunday that Pakistan direly needs a grand dialogue.
“We will have to hold a grand dialogue with all stakeholders of the country if we have to lead Pakistan ahead,” the premier said while addressing the inauguration ceremony of Indus Hospital, Lahore.
PM Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated the first phase of the 600-bed Indus Hospital earlier in the day. The hospital located in Lahore’s Jubilee Town will provide free of cost medical treatment to the poor and deserving following international standards.
PM Shehbaz Sharif said that attending the inaugural of the Indus Hospital is a reason of delight for him.
“People launching such projects for the poor are earning the blessings of this world and the hereafter,” he said.
While addressing the ceremony, PM Shehbaz Sharif said that the purpose of the grand dialogue he is talking about is to make no compromise over education, health and industries.
“Any change in the government shouldn’t matter and no one can touch these areas so that the country keeps going ahead,” the premier said.
Recalling the establishment and completion of the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) project with an investment of Rs20 billion in the previous government of PML-N, PM Shehbaz Sharif decried that the PKLI chairman Dr Saeed Akhtar was disrespected and pushed out of the hospital when the government changed.
He said that a world-class hospital for liver and kidney transplants with staff members and doctors who came to Pakistan from the US and Europe to serve the humanity in Pakistan fell prey to politics.
The prime minister went on to say that the welfare work by good people shouldn’t be politicised regardless of the government they are working with.
“How long will a country running on loans survive?” he asked, adding that Pakistan should have been ahead of every other country at this point.
