SIALKOT: Chief Manager of State Bank Pakistan Sialkot Tariq Riaz has assured Sialkot based surgical instruments manufactures and exporters about the early and cordial solution to their banking related problems. Addressing an important meeting of the surgical instruments manufacturers and exporters, SBP Chief Manager hailed his sincere efforts regarding the promotion of surgical instruments’ exports to the tune of $335 million. He added that the Sialkot exporters have been injecting fresh blood in to the national economy besides boosting the national exports by earning foreign exchange of almost $1.8 billion annually.
Earlier, the surgical instruments exporters demanded the early transfer of advanced technology to more than one century old surgical industry of Sialkot, besides, seeking government’s help in early provision of the skilled labor and proper governmental patronage to Sialkot’s surgical industry, having potential of increasing the surgical exports to $500 million.
They also demanded removal of all hurdles in the upgrading process of surgical industry, besides, seeking early solution to all the prolonged tormenting problems of industry.