# Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opens in Lahore

Date: 1994

## The fact

On 29 December 1994 the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre opened in Lahore, funded by a public campaign [Imran Khan](/people/imran-khan) led after his mother’s death.

## Context

It is a charitable hospital, later expanded to Peshawar and Karachi. He did not write a WHO resolution. Provincial health departments still run the public system. A charity hospital is still a completed capacity instrument.

The World Cup afterglow that helped fundraising is a neighbouring earlier row. Sehat Sahulat as PM is later.

A cricket captain and charity founder does not write federal statutes, IMF letters, or army orders. A trophy is not a cabinet minute. A hospital trust is not a health ministry. A party launch is not an election return. A sit-in is not a gazette. A fundraising dinner is not a Finance Act.

## Evidence and sources

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust carries the official instrument or communique. BBC records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is health-system capacity: a completed specialist cancer hospital added treatment capacity that the public system did not then supply.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 29 December 1994 opening of Shaukat Khanum in Lahore after his fundraising campaign, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later national cancer-mortality coefficient, or that the hospital is a substitute for a public health system.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Trustees and clinicians operate. Patients and later donors sustain it.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opens in Lahore, not a later speech about Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opens in Lahore.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opens in Lahore on 1994-12-29 is not a licence to treat every later Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital opens in Lahore into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He founded and fundraised. Trustees and clinicians operate. Patients and later donors sustain it. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Imran Khan: https://factrail.ai/people/imran-khan

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16356914
- https://shaukatkhanum.org.pk/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/pk-imran-shaukat-khanum-1994