‘Create awareness of blood donation, transfusion’

LAHORE
Special assistant to prime minister on political affairs Dr Asif Kirmani has said blood donation and blood transfusion messages should be prevailed to save lives.
He said this while speaking at a seminar on “Safe Blood Transfusion” organised by the Mir Khalil-ur-Rahman Memorial Society (Jang Group of Newspapers) in collaboration with the Safe Blood Transfusion Government of Pakistan at a local hotel on Thursday. Dr Kirmani while appreciating the MKRMS efforts regarding health and education issues said that he didn’t know the fact that it was the 650th event hosted by MKRMS on health and education issue. Dr Kirmani went on saying: “In our society people don’t bother about other people and now-a-days all they only focus on their own issues”.
No one is ready to take any pain for other people in their surroundings as they have become busy in their routine life matters, he added.
Dr Kirmani said in his college life he used to donate blood like other students on regular basis.
Dr Jamal Nasir, president, Green Task Force said there was a need to check hepatitis A and D also, besides B and C. He said blood diseases were spreading because fake blood testing kits were being sold in the Rawalpindi markets in sacks. Deputy Director, Safe Blood Transfusion Pakistan, Dr Amir Mehmood said safe blood transfusion programme was working in all four provinces of the country and Gilgit Baltistan because the county needed three million units of blood every year. Out of this, fifty percent is provided by volunteers and the reaming was donated by relatives and friends, he added.
Muhammad Usman of Blood Transfusion Authority said there were 25 blood banks in Islamabad and the biggest blood bank was working in PIMS.
National Coordination Safe Blood Transfusion Prof Hassan Abbass Zaheer, Dr Saeed Imtaiz of Poly Clinic, Dr Farooq Khatak of Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital, Dr Ashafaq Ahmed and Wasif Nagi spoke on the occasion. MKRMS Chairman, Wasif Nagi, hosted the seminar.