Principal Post Graduate Medical Institute (PGMI) and Lahore General Hospital (LGH) Prof Dr Sardar Alfareed Zafar has advised the pregnant women to undergo medical tests regularly so that coming baby could be saved from the disease of hepatitis.
While talking to media at 'hepatitis awareness walk' held at the Lahore General Hospital (LGH), here Monday, Sardar Alfareed Zafar announced official website for general awareness on hepatitis where Public service message (SMS) facility will also be available while necessary material in national language (Urdu) will also be put for guidance. "It is our collective responsibility to attain the goal of controlling the hepatitis by 2030 and campaign should be launched on the pattern of dengue and polio in which apart from medical representatives, civil society, Ulema, media and students should also share their responsibility," he asserted. He disclosed that proper screening is being arranged at LGH for hepatitis, as without collection of proper data it would be a difficult task to control this disease.
Earlier, addressing the participants of the walk, he stressed that it is needed that quacks and untrained medical professionals must be avoided and proper treatment be taken from the authorized doctors for hepatitis. In awareness walk, Prof Dr Ghias un Nabi Tayyab, Dr Israr ul Haque Toor, Dr Mahmud Salah Uddin and other medical experts highlighted the symptoms, complications and their treatment.
They stated that hepatitis have five different categories for which separate medicines are required. They said that unnecessary injections should be avoided while always new syringes be used. Similarly, unverified blood transfusion and properly hygienic dentist and hairdresser's tools be ensured. They also advised the citizens to avoid extra medicines and undertake their blood tests at least twice a year so that any complication could be caught at the early stage.