GAMBAT: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman on Friday inaugurated the bone marrow transplant institute at Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMT), which is already offering liver transplant services.
“Our vision is providing free healthcare across Pakistan,” the PPP Chairman said at the inauguration ceremony. The bone marrow transplant procedure will leave a great impact on the lives of people seeking treatment for several diseases such as thalassemia.
Expressing joy over the advancement in Sindh’s public healthcare sector, Bilawal announced that the bone marrow transplant treatment at GIMS is 100% free. He said that GIMS offers free treatment for liver, kidney, bone marrow and cancer.
He also said 100 % free cancer treatment, and world-class facilities are offered at Gambat. The PPP chairman further said that with the rise of car accidents, a rapid response emergency facility has also been launched.
“The aim is to open such centres in other cities as well so those suffering severe medical injuries from fires and accidents can be treated in the best possible way. Gambat, from today, is the medical capital of Pakistan,” he added.
“I challenge all the provincial governments of the country to build a hospital-like GIMS, where free treatment for liver, kidney, bone marrow and cancer is provided,” he added.
Bilawal said that Sindh has broken the national record by providing 550 free liver transplants. Amongst these, 52% people were from Sindh, 29% were from Punjab, 15% were from Balochistan, and 3% were from K-P.
He said that Punjab has a liver and kidney institute that performs transplants, but the number of people from Punjab that Gambat treated is more than the overall patients their hospital admitted.
“The vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was to improve the healthcare system of the nation, and save the lives of elders. This is our vision of Pakistan,” the PPP leader added.
He continued, “We want healthcare to be completely free so no one can say they couldn’t get treated due to lack of finances. To reach our goal, we have made a large number of investments, especially for tertiary care hospitals.”
Bilawal said the PPP government had introduced Waseela-e-Sehat Card to help the poverty ridden. “When Mian Nawaz Sharif came, he changed the name to PM Health Card, now PTI calls it the Sehat Insaaf card,” he claimed.
Chairman Bilawal stated that the budget of only three institutes set up by the Sindh government, GIMS, SIUT and NICVD, is more than the budget of the entire Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Health Card.”
He further said that the selected government can run the healthcare sector better if some of this money is given to the poor, and the rest is utilised in the budget of government hospitals. Their current health card is a theft of the health budget as this money will be given to private insurance companies.
