KARACHI: The Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust is organising the groundbreaking ceremony of Pakistan’s third Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Karachi on December 29, 2016.

It is pertinent to mention that last year, on December 29, the second state-of-the-art Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital was inaugurated in Hayatabad, Peshawar.

The construction of a comprehensive cancer diagnosis and treatment facility in Karachi will not only provide the most modern cancer treatment to the people of Karachi and Sindh, but will also help raise healthcare standards and provide training and employment opportunities in the region.

Imran Khan, Chairman Board of Governors, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust, board members, hospital’s senior management and representatives from different quarters of the city, hospital’s well-wishers, donors and celebrities from different walk of life will be present at THE event.

The hospital management hopes that the masses at large will help generously to build the facility for patients, as they have helped previously for construction of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospitals in Lahore and Peshawar.