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LRH gets medical equipment

By Bureau report
March 27, 2019

PESHAWAR: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has provided medical equipment to the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) to boost the performance and capacity of the Ophthalmology Department as well as meeting the growing needs of the patients.

A press release from the LRH said the handover ceremony for the equipment, worth Rs21 million, was held at the hospital on Tuesday. The UNHCR’s representative in Pakistan Ruvendrini Menikdiwela, head of sub-office in Peshawar, Dinesh Shrestha, chairman, Board of Governors, LRH MTI, Prof. Nausherwan Burki, Hospital Director Dr Khalid Masud and other dignitaries attended the ceremony.