Liver transplant at SZH soon: adviser

LAHORE
Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khawaja Salman Rafiq has said all-out resources will be provided for making the Sheikh Zayed Hospital a state-of-the-art institution. He said that after the upgrade of the hospital, new operation theatres would soon become functional through which treatment and surgery facilities would further increase for the patients.
He said this while addressing an inaugural ceremony after the renovation of children emergency ward by a well-to-do family at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital, according to a handout issued on Wednesday. Chairman Sheikh Zayed Hospital Prof. Fareed Ahmed Khan, Administrator Dr. Akbar Hussain, Prof. Bangash, senior doctors, and persons of a philanthropist family were also present.
Kh. Salman Rafiq said the financial cooperation for the development projects by philanthropists at the government hospitals reflected their confidence in the government institutions. He said the government highly valued the charity by wealthy people. Kh. Salman Rafiq said the Liver Transplantation Department was being upgraded at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital and the local doctors would carry out the liver transplantation.
Chairman Prof. Fareed Ahmed Khan said he had set up a fund for the treatment of poor patients at the hospital for which he himself donated five lakh rupees.
Dr. Fareed Ahmed Khan further said such a system was being evolved at the Sheikh Zayed Hospital that at least emergency services could be provided to the patients free of cost.
He said the upper storey of the Sheikh Zayed Hospital had been completed and steps were being taken for making theatres operational and wards functional at the earliest.
Head of the philanthropist family, Ansar Munir, who bore the expenses of the renovation of pediatric ward said that well-to-do of the society, instead of looking towards the government, should discharge their social responsibilities and come forward for serving the ailing humanity.