Senior citizens clinics have been established at three major medical facilities in the city - the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH), Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) and the Sindh Government Hospital North Karachi (SGHNK).
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Karachi commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui said: “Senior citizens are a great asset of this country.”
In her briefing to the commissioner, Karachi Metropolitan Corporation medical and health services senior director Dr Salma Kosar said that the clinics had been set up to provide senior citizens with free medical facilities as well as medicines.
Karachi executive district officer for health Dr Ejaz Zafar said that a large number of senior citizens visited the SGHNK for treatment. The clinic would enable them to be attended to separately, without having to wait for their turn with the rest of the OPD patients.
The commissioner lauded the initiative and asked the doctors to fulfill their duties with due diligence. “Senior citizens who visit these clinics must be shown due respect and hospitality, as is your ethical responsibility,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 7th, 2014.
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