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LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz on Friday inaugurated Pakistan’s first cardiac transplant centre at the Jinnah Institute of Cardiology, saying there was a need to change the mindset that better treatment could only be done abroad.
She also announced the government would provide heart transplant treatment free of cost to deserving patients as it would bear up to $50,000 for a heart transplant.
“By using Chinese technology, we will bring down the cost of a heart transplant to around $10,000 so that more people can benefit from this facility,” she said.
“Heart transplant procedures at the Jinnah Institute of Cardiology will be done 100 per cent free of cost. We have established Pakistan’s first-of-its-kind heart transplant centre,” she said.
