Providing basic health facilities big challenge for SIUT: Dr Rizvi
February 26, 2009
Karachi
Providing basic health facilities to a major faction of the public mostly from the low income group is a big challenge for the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Director SIUT Adeeb Rizvi, told journalists on the first day of the four-day workshop on Paediatric Urology.
While inaugurating the workshop, Dr Rizvi said that in an underdeveloped country like Pakistan where only two to four per cent of population could afford getting treatment in private hospitals, while only one per cent of the total budget spent on health sector by the government was very difficult for the people to get their organs transplanted.
Against this background, Dr Rizvi added that SIUT has been indiscriminately providing the public with basic health facilities in Urology and Transplantation with almost 9,000 patients having been treated at the SIUT since 1998. Sixty per cent of the patients at the SIUT, Dr Rizvi added, have the problem of stones in lungs. Besides them are patients with urological diseases.
Some 200 doctors from Pakistan and abroad are registered for the workshop where besides reading research papers and lectures, on the spot operations of children with lung or urology diseases would be operated.
Providing basic health facilities to a major faction of the public mostly from the low income group is a big challenge for the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Director SIUT Adeeb Rizvi, told journalists on the first day of the four-day workshop on Paediatric Urology.
While inaugurating the workshop, Dr Rizvi said that in an underdeveloped country like Pakistan where only two to four per cent of population could afford getting treatment in private hospitals, while only one per cent of the total budget spent on health sector by the government was very difficult for the people to get their organs transplanted.
Against this background, Dr Rizvi added that SIUT has been indiscriminately providing the public with basic health facilities in Urology and Transplantation with almost 9,000 patients having been treated at the SIUT since 1998. Sixty per cent of the patients at the SIUT, Dr Rizvi added, have the problem of stones in lungs. Besides them are patients with urological diseases.
Some 200 doctors from Pakistan and abroad are registered for the workshop where besides reading research papers and lectures, on the spot operations of children with lung or urology diseases would be operated.
