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Kasi assure

efforts to overcome

NICVD's financial

crisis

RECORDER REPORT

KARACHI: The Federal Minister for Health and Population, Dr. Abdul Malik Kasi, said on Monday that the government with the assistance of philanthropists would overcome the financial crisis of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Addressing a meeting of the board of governors of the NICVD, the minister said that efforts would be made to provide better facilities to the NICVD so that it could be updated with the latest technology in the treatment of heart ailments.

He said the members of the NICVD board had been selected on merit. They were expected to contribute towards the overall improvement of the Institute.

The executive director of the NICVD, Prof. Azhar Farooqui, briefed the minister on the working of the Institute and requested him to look into the problems of the NICVD.