Over 0.9 million eye-patients benefited from Al-Shifa Trust

Over 0.9 million people benefited from the services of the leading state of the art four eye care hospitals of Al-Shifa Trust at Rawalpindi, Sukkur, Kohat and Muzaffarabad in one year.
In an e-Mail message Executive Director of Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospitals, Brigadier Rizwan Asghar (r) told Business Recorder that during last one year, "we conducted forty thousand operations, three hundred and fifty thousand patients were treated while half a million people were screened for possible eye disorders," Sharing the annual report of the trust he said that we are increasing the services by ten percent annually but only the private sector cannot cope with the challenge of blindness as eye diseases are increasing at a fast pace. Our population is increasing putting the strain on services like sanitation, pollution is compromising hygiene while fact remains that many of the viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi that can invade the human body are also capable of attacking the surface or interior of the eye, he said.