Provincial Unit of Prime Minister's Programme for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis Sindh has so far provided medical treatment to 4,800 Hepatitis patients including 4,000 Hepatitis-C and 800 Hepatitis-C in different parts of the province.
The Co-ordinator of Sindh Provincial Unit of the Programme, Dr Zulfiqar Gorar while talking to APP on Monday informed that the Prime Minister's Programme for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis has been launched in August 2006 in view of the growing increase in the country particularly in Sindh where Hepatitis-B and Hepatitis-C have become a significant public health problemme.
Since the launch of the Prime Minister's Programme for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis in August 2006, he informed that the provincial unit has been able to provide treatment against Hepatitis C to 4,000 patients and for Hepatitis B to more than 800 patients with the financial support of the federal government.
However, he informed that responding to the actual population needs and urgency on disease situation, the District Governments Tharparkar and Umerkot have reflected a complimentary support to Prime Minister's Programme, he said.
He informed that the District Nazim Tharparkar has allocated a sum of Rs 10 million for the prevention and control of hepatitis, while the district Nazim Umerkot has allowed for the provision of treatment of 50 patients of Hepatitis C.
These allocations have materialised due to intensive advocacy and behaviour change communication activities under taken by the Provincial Implementation Unit of the programme, he added. In the similar lines, he informed that budgetary allocations are expected from district governments Dadu and Jamshoro.
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