Sindh govt to outsource two new hospitals
(WorldNews Pakistan)

The Sindh government’s Public-Private Partnership Policy (PPPP) Board has decided to operate two newly-constructed hospitals — the Jacobabad Institute of Medical Sciences (JIMS) and the Government Taluka Hospital Matli — on public-private partnership (PPP) basis so they can provide efficient services round the clock. The 29th meeting of the PPPP Board was held under the chairmanship of Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah at the CM House on Saturday. The meeting was told that JIMS has been established with the assistance of the US over an area of five acres, with a cost of $14.5 billion. It is a 133-bed health facility with the total staff strength of 141, of whom only...