Improving medications: AKUH introduces new clinic

KARACHI: The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) has launched the first Anticoagulation Therapy Clinic in Pakistan.

Clinic will ensure effective management of patients on blood thinning medications. “Every day we have new patients with heart and blood diseases, many need to be placed on drugs that thin the blood,” said Dr Bushra Moiz, an associate professor of haematolgy.

At the patient awareness session held on Wednesday, she said the main objective  was to provide the patient education and make timely interventions.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2013.