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Negotiations underway with Bahrain to set up liver transplant hospital: Senate told

ISLAMABAD, (APP): Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Tuesday apprised the Senate that negotiations were underway with Bahrain to set up a hospital that would cater for the
patients for liver transplant.
Responding to a question on behalf of Minister for National Health Services during Question Hour, he said currently there was no center for liver transplant in the hospitals administered by the Federal Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination.
To another question, he said National Council for Homoeopathy had 21 members. A person was eligible to become member of the Council through election or nomination if he/she was holding degree/diploma of
Homoeopathic System of Medicine and registered under Unani, Ayurvedic
and Homoeopathic Practitioners Act, 1965, he said.
He said members of the Council were not salaried persons. They were
only paid TA/DA on account of attending meetings and assignments.
The minister said that the Council established under Section 3 of
Unani, Ayurvedic and Homoeopathic Practitioners Act, II of 1965.