KARACHI: It’s a gesture of friendship and bilateral cooperation between Government of Pakistan and Government of Japan and even between both sides of people to help each other in every aspect of life. For this purpose, Japan's government has taken the wheel on its hand to spend more than 1.75 billion rupees to establish a state of the art 150-bed children hospital under the banner of Japan Institute of Cooperation Agency (JICA) and more than US$86,460 approximately Rs9 million to establish and equip pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Indus Hospital Karachi.
Consul-General of Japan Toshikazu Isomura while talking to media at the handing over ceremony said that Japan's government was always trying to help out Pakistan government and specially its citizens and it's a gift from Government of Japan to the people of Pakistan. “we have established a children hospital in Karachi and Islamabad at PIMS Hospital and now we have equipped Indus Hospital's PICU.”
Toshikazu Isomura also wished that this support from the people of Japan would further strengthen friendly relationship between Japan and Pakistan
Under the GGP scheme, Japan has funded about 350 projects in Pakistan since 1989 and this is the 16th GGP project to be implemented by the Consulate General of Japan in Karachi since 2009
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