Work on kidney institute faces delay due to shortage of funds.

RAWALPINDI -- The completion of Rawalpindi Institute of Urology and Kidney Transplant (RIUKT) project seems to be difficult due to shortage of funds although 85 per cent construction work over the project.

The Rs.2.25 billion health project, inaugurated in August 2012 at Shamsabad was supposed to be ready by January 2014 but due to previous government policy to construct Rawalpindi-Islamabad metro bus project in 2014 and then to the Orange train in Lahore, the provincial government had stopped the funds for the project resulting increased its construction costs.

When contacted, Medical Superintendent RIKUT Dr Nasir Mehmood told reporter: , if government provides Rs 100 million at...