The Post-Graduate Medical Institution is set to launch a campaign to spread awareness about human organ donation ahead of a Human Organ Transplantation Programme at three major hospitals in the city, said PGMI president Prof Tariq Salahuddin on Sunday.
Salahuddin, who will be the chairman of the programme, was speaking at a meeting of medical experts at the PGMI.
He said that liver and kidney transplants would take place at Shaikh Zayed Hospital and Lahore General Hospital and heart transplants at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology. He said that the LGH would be the main centre of the programme. Salahuddin said that cooperation of religious scholars, social workers and media would be sought to persuade people of the utility of organ transplants. He said the National Assembly of Pakistan had already passed a law in 2010 allowing organ transplants in the country.
He said religious scholars from Egypt, Iran and other Muslim countries had already permitted the procedure. He said donor cards would be issued to people willing to donate their organs. The organs, he said, would be collected after the brain death of the donor.
The meeting was attended by Shaikh Zayed Hospital’s professors Muhammad Saeed, Tahir Shafi, Nauman Ahmad, Altaf Alam, Dr Amir Latif, Dr Tariq Ali Bangash, Dr Waqar Ali Shah, Col (R) Cheema of PIC, Waheed Ahmad and Salman Waris and PGMI’s Khalid Bashir and Khalid Mehmood. Dr Khalid Mehmood would be the coordinator of the programme. Khalid Bashir would be responsible for intensive care following the transplants.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 4th, 2011.
COMMENTS
Comments are moderated and generally will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive.
For more information, please see our Comments FAQ