Advisor to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafiq while inaugurating the Breast Clinic at Lady Aitchison Hospital here on Wednesday has said that Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has announced historic package of Rs 1.5 billion for the specialist doctors of District and Tehsil Head Quarters hospitals.
Medical Superintendent Dr Samina Jabeen as well as a large number of doctors and nurses were present on the occasion. Dr Samina Jabeen said the breast cancer is curable, if diagnosed at initial stage but due to social attitude, women do not get themselves examined due to which the disease becomes incurable.
She said the best breast screening of the patients will be conducted at Breast Clinic set up at Lady Aitcheson Hospital if the tumour is detected in ultrasound, the patient will be referred to the government hospital. Mammography machine will also be provided by the government for the clinic. Salman Rafiq said that there are a number of health problems and besides provision of medical facilities, controlling over population is also of vital importance. He said that government is taking historic measures for the development of health sector.
He asked MS of Lady Aitcheson Hospital to send development schemes for the hospital in writing to the health department so that it could be included in the next year budget. Moreover, Khawaja Salman Rafiq, while addressing the inaugural ceremony of the renovated Children Emergency Ward at Sheikh Zayed Hospital has said that all-out resources will be provided for making Sheikh Zayed Hospital a state-of-the- art institution. He said that after upgradation of the hospital, new operation theatres will soon become functional through which treatment and surgery facilities will further increase for the patients.
Salman said that financial co-operation for development projects by philanthropists in government hospitals reflects their confidence in government institutions. He said that Liver Transplantation department is being upgraded at Sheikh Zayed Hospital and local doctors will carry out liver transplantation.
Chairman Professor Fareed Ahmed Khan said that he has set up a fund for the treatment of poor patients in the hospital for which he himself donated Rs 0.5 million. Such a system is being evolved in Sheikh Zayed Hospital that at least emergency services could be provided to the patients free of cost, he added.
Head of the philanthropist family Ansar Munir, who borne the expenses of renovation of Children Ward said that well-to-do people of the society, instead of looking towards the government, should discharge their social responsibilities and come forward for serving the ailing humanity. He said that his family will bear the expenses of constructing a waiting room for the patients.