LAHORE: Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital’s Karachi facility is set to open on Dec 29, 32 years to the day after the Lahore hospital was inaugurated, the network’s chief medical officer, Dr Aasim Yusuf, has said.
The Rs30 billion hospital in DHA City will be the network’s third and largest, offering diagnosis and treatment under one roof for patients from Sindh and southern Balochistan.
More than 75 percent of eligible patients across the network receive free treatment, according to the hospital. It says it has spent Rs137 billion on free cancer care since 1994 and that its 2026 budget is Rs43.2 billion.
The Lahore hospital, opened on Dec 29, 1994, was founded by Imran Khan in memory of his mother, Shaukat Khanum, who died of cancer in 1985, and was built largely with public donations. A second hospital opened in Peshawar in 2015.
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