Sir: A few months ago, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had announced that the federal government would construct more than 40 hospitals at different parts of the country. As a follow up of this much appreciated announcement, the National Assembly was told by the Federal Minister concerned sometime back that more than 40 modern hospitals will be established in Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, FATA as well as Azad Kashmir. However, it is still not known whether the construction of these state-of-the-art hospitals has been started in any part of the country or not. It is also not known as to what will be the breakup of these hospitals and how many of these are going to be established and funded by the federal government, if this is not merely an announcement. If these hospitals are still at the planning stage, it will be good that the federal government undertakes construction of these hospitals in close coordination and cooperation with the respective beneficiary governments which are in a much better position to say as to where these hospitals are needed most. At present, people are asking as to where and when these more than 40 state-of- the- art hospitals are going to be constructed. MOMINA BILAL Lahore