Healthcare: Kidney, liver transplant centre on the cards

Shahbaz says the facility will house a 750-bed hospital

LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Monday a modern Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute would be set up in the city and an autonomous board of governors had been formed for the purpose.

He was chairing a meeting to review progress on the project.

The chief minister said 50 acres had been allocated for the institute that would also have a nursing school and a research centre. He said a 750-bed hospital would be set up at the institute.

Sharif said that an autonomous board of governors had been formed to run administrative affairs of the institute. The poor would be provided free treatment at the institute, he said.

“The institute will offer modern health services under one roof. The project should be completed early.” He said billions of rupees were being spent on the provision of health services to people.

Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute Board of Governors president Saeed Akhtar told the chief minister that all-out efforts would be made to complete the project on time.

Board members Masooma Saeed, Sheikh Amin and Waseem Afzal; the Board of Revenue senior member, the Planning and Development Board chairman and health and finance secretaries attended the meeting.

Angioplasty

The Interventional Radiology Unit of Lahore General Hospital (LGH) has started angioplasty and stenting of lower limbs that would be beneficial for the patients of diabetes, LGH Principal Prof Anjam Habib Vohra said on Monday.

He said that a team of doctors, headed by Shahzad Karim Bhatti and Umair Rasheed, was working on this project.

Bhatti said diabetes patients should take proper care of their hands and feet.

Karim said that blackening and numbness of lower limbs and toes was a sign that flow of blood was impeded.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 6^th, 2015.