PESHAWAR
Special Assistant to Chief Minister for Information and Public Relations Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif has urged the people to donate more blood to save the precious lives of people suffering from thalassemia.
He expressed these views while addressing a function organized by Al-Khidmat Hospital Nishtarabad on Thursday.
The program aimed to highlight the importance of blood donation and to create awareness among the people that how their donated blood could save lives of people suffering from hereditary and contagious diseases like thalassemia.
The district president of the Alkhidmat foundation Arbab Abdul Haseeb, president of Peshawar Chamber of Small Business and business leader Ehtesham Halim Jan, Mian Atiq of thalassaemia Association, Dr Shahzad Arshad Awan, Provincial Manager of Al-Khidmat Media Noorul Wahid Jadoon and Deputy Director of the hospital Dr Tahir were also present on the occasion.
Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif said that in view of the increasing cases of thalassemia cases in the province, people should spread the culture of donating blood. He said it was healthy practice and every healthy person should donate blood for the welfare of others who are in dire need of it.
He appreciated the role of the Alkhidmat foundation and its hospital in Peshawar, adding that the government will also speed up its efforts in preventing the disease.
I am a volunteer ambassador of Al-Khidmat foundation and would raise the issue of the foundation’s hospital in the cabinet, he added.
“I will make every effort to provide all possible relief to the patients suffering from this disease,” he said and maintained that the government would take the issue of thalassemia cure on all forums. The provincial president of Al-Khidmat foundation Khalid Waqas shared with the participants that more than 140,000 children in Pakistan are suffering from thalassemia, which is a deadly disease and every year more than 5,000 children are suffering from the disease.
He maintained the prime cause of the thalassemia among the children is cousin marriage.
