LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Thursdaydonated Rs1 million to the United Christian Hospital (UCH).
The top judge, while hearing a suo motu case pertaining to the dilapidatedcondition of the hospital, also ordered a financial audit of the past 10years.
“Who is supposed to run the hospital? Should the Supreme Court run it?” theCJP asked the chairman of the steering committee, former interim healthminister Dr Jawad Sajid Khan, during the course of proceedings.
The committee chairman told the court that they needed Rs40 to 50 millionfor the restoration of the hospital and asked Justice Nisar to constitute asix-member steering committee in this regard.
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Expressing displeasure over the lack of medicines at the hospital, thechief justice told the authorities to suggest six names for the steeringcommittee.
He also said that it was the SC that had removed encroachments fromhospital’s land.
