Bilawal inaugurates Pakistan’s first lung transplant facility
He also performs groundbreaking of projects to build medical city, pharma industry
Karachi: Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has inaugurated Pakistan’s first facility for lung transplants at Pir Abdul Qadir Shah Jeelani Institute of Medical Sciences in the small town of Gambat in Sindh.
The Foreign Minister also performed the groundbreaking of the projects to build Pakistan’s first medical city and pharmaceutical industry in Gambat.
The medical city will be established to introduce the concept of medical tourism in Pakistan with the facility of boarding and lodging for the attendants accompanying the patients.
The minister told the audience that the Institute of medical sciences in Gambat had emerged as the national-level health facility providing quality treatment services to patients from all parts of the country.
He said the health facility in Gambat showed that the public healthcare infrastructure built by the Sindh government was of superior quality as compared to the medical facilities for the masses in the other provinces.
Director of the Institute of Medical Sciences, Dr Rahim Bux Bhatti, expressed gratitude to the Sindh government for its continuous support to the institute for expanding its services.
750 liver and 200 kidney transplants
He said the institute had decided to launch the facility for lung transplants after successfully performing lifesaving procedures of liver, kidney, and bone marrow transplants.
Dr Bhatti informed the audience that the institute had so far performed 750 liver and 200 kidney transplants in the last couple of years.
The institute had its own team of properly qualified organ transplant specialists and related medical professionals who had the firm resolve to continue performing vital procedures to save the lives of critically ill patients from all over the country.
He said that his institute in a year had attended to around 200,000 emergency patients whose lives were in serious danger due to road accidents and crimes.
Dr Bhatti said the institute had the aim to make available all the modern health treatment facilities under one roof for patients of all ages from newborn children to senior citizens.
Speaking on the occasion, Sindh Chief Minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, said that his government would continue to give the full support to the institute in Gambat for the benefit of a large number of patients from the deprived communities.
He urged Dr Bhatti to take over some more public health facilities in Sindh in order to upgrade their services.