Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the "Begum Nafees Sardar Yasin Malik Centre," the National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Dow University of Health Sciences, Ojha Campus, social worker Sardar Yasin Malik said that "diabetes and the number of people suffering from this disease is increasing at a significant rate in Pakistan."
He said this has raised the need to take some protective measures in order to overcome the high prevalence of diabetes and endocrine diseases. The National Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Dow University of Health Sciences, is one of the institutions that are actively serving patients suffering from diabetes and other endocrine diseases. He said the expansion of the services of this institution will soon be multiplied and this institute will be benefitting 300 patients daily in the near future.
The vice chancellor of Dow University, Dr M. Saeed Quraishy, and the director of the NIDE, Dr Akhtar Ali Balouch, also addressed the inaugural ceremony. The event was largely attended by directors of many departments of Dow University.
Pro-vice chancellor Dr Khawar Saeed Jamali, Professor Amanullah Abbasi, Dr Mohammed Masroor, Dr Zarnaz Wahid, were among other senior faculty members present at the ceremony.
Sardar Yasin Malik also said that the first and most painful injury for any diabetic patient is a foot injury that occurs without the person's knowledge. He said that such injuries need the most advanced technology, including the latest machines, for screening purposes. Such facilities will soon be available to patients of the NIDE at the Dow University of Health Sciences, he said.
Professor Mohammad Saeed Quraishy said in his address that keeping in view medical health education and facilitation, a Bone-marrow Transplantation Centre will soon be operational, with the latest machines serving approximately 200 patients daily. He said the plan for a new building for the Bone-marrow Centre is under process and the old building will continue to provide services.