ISLAMABAD- Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) has formally approvedto construct a cancer hospital in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Chairman PAEC, Dr. Naeem Ahmad revealed this in a meeting with AJK PrimeMinister Raja Farooq Haider Khan in Islamabad.

Ministry of National Health Services will provide required funds forconstruction of the 100 bedded hospital.

The ministry has directed AJK government to prepare PC-1 of the hospitalduly approved by AJK Development Working Party and send it to the ministryso as to start work on it as early as possible .A team of PAEC will inspectsite spanning over 100 kanal land proposed by the AJK Government inMuzaffarabad.

AJK Prime Minister thanked federal government and Chairman PAEC and termedestablishment of the cancer hospital a gift for the people of the state.