Govt providing free hepatitis medicines: CM

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that hepatitis is a fatal disease, however, people can ward off disease by following quality health principles and adoption of necessary precautionary measures.

In his message on World Hepatitis Day, he said that the purpose of observing the day was to provide necessary awareness about the disease to the people in an effective manner. He said that the Punjab government was engaged in an organised campaign to sensitise the general public through mass media. For the first time in the history of the country, the Punjab government initiated a program to provide free medicines of hepatitis B and C to the registered patients through courier service, he added.