An emergency liver disease centre will be set up at DHQ Hospital Toba Tek Singh in holy month of Ramazan for hepatitis patients of the district. This was announced by chairman Faisalabad Liver Centre and Punjab Medical College Professor of Medicine Dr Zahid Yaseen Hashmi, while talking to newsmen.
He further said it would be set up with the assistance of an industrial group and other philanthropists of the district. He pointed out that Faisalabad Liver Centre was the only centre of its type in the country as patients from Wana, Waziristan, and Loralai, Balochistan, were also being treated there. Dr Zahid disclosed that these patients were suffering from hepatitis B while in Faisalabad and Toba districts the common disease of liver had been reported as hepatitis C.
He claimed that 30 percent people all over the world had hepatitis. There were vaccines to prevent the hepatitis B but in near future there was no possibility of introduction of a precautionary vaccine for hepatitis C. Industrialist and local politician Mian Kashif Ashfaq, former district Nazim Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq and District Bar Association president Mian Shoaib Muhammad were also present on the occasion. A free testing lab camp was set up by two medicine companies where more than 1,000 patients were tested for hepatitis.