Chinese delegation visits hospital

LAHORE: Chinese delegation, including Ms LiuLi, wife of Long Dingbin, Consul General of China to Lahore, and Zhai Yinglin, Consular Attaché visited Paediatric Department of Shaikh Zayed Hospital (SZH) Lahore.

Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan, Chairman & Dean Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex, faculty members, doctors, nurses and paramedical staff were present. According to a handout issued here on Thursday, the Chinese delegation presented bouquets and expressed warm wishes for the health of children in paediatric ward. Ms Liu Li expressed her satisfaction and appreciated the efforts for the provision of state of the art treatment facilities to the children. A detailed discussion was conducted regarding the health matters.

Prof Dr Farid said: “We are proud of Pak-China Friendship. It is always higher than the mountains and deeper than the oceans. We have given the responsibility to provide healthcare facilities to the Chinese consulate adjacent to Shaikh Zayed Hospital by the Punjab government.”

In this regard the Chinese delegate expressed their gratitude to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Khawaja Salman Rafique, Minister for Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education, Punjab, Secretary, Health, Najam Ahmad Shah and Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Lahore for the provision of excellent health / treatment facilities to the Chinese.

Prof Dr Farid said Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore is the only public sector hospital in the province, which has successfully completed more than 100 liver transplants and more than 800 kidney transplants. Recently we have achieved another milestone by doing first-ever kidney transplant of a seven-year-old child, Zainab Javed. With the collaboration of Chinese expertise, we want to move forward to start liver transplant of children/minors in our hospital, which will be a revolution for the minors suffering from the deadly liver failure. We also wish to start exchange programmes in other medical disciplines as the time has come to look toward east, instead of west by which the doctors from both countries will get training, he said.

AIDS centre: The Punjab AIDS Control Programme (PACP) will open a new centre for HIV/AIDS patients. PACP Programme Director Dr Asim Altaf said this in a meeting on Thursday, according to a handout issued here. He said the Programme was all set to open a new centre in Jalalpur Jattan to ensure availability of its services across the province.

He said that the PACP was taking all-out steps for the treatment of patients and ample amount of anti-retroviral medicines were available for patients at all PACP centres. The PACP provides anti-retroviral medicines, counselling and test services to all patients in the province, he said. Dr Asim Altaf said the PACP was working under the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department and had set up 15 treatment centres and 11 Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing Centres (VCCT) in the province that provided free services to the patients.