ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Japan on Wednesday extended $80,252 to an NGO for provision of medical equipment for a hospital in Kuchlah, Balochistan.
Japanese Ambassador Nobuaki Tanaka signed the grant contract with Malik Abdul Rashid Kakar, the chairman of Kuchlak Welfare Society here, says a press release.
Japan provided $79,821 to the society in 2003 for construction of the hospital in the village.
The facility aims to provide preventive and curative health services to an estimated 100,000 under-privileged people in the region of Killi Malik Abdul Ali, Kuchlah, a slum situated in the north of Quetta city.
The hospital will be equipped with modern medical equipment such as X-ray, ultrasound and anaesthesia machines, etc.
The grant has been provided under Japans ⌠Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects.
The scheme was initiated in 1989 and Japan has so far extended $12,328,940 to small-scale social sector development projects all over Pakistan.
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