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 SUKKUR, Jan 11 (APP): Prime
Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani here Sunday inaugurated Indoor Block of Sukkur
Hospital/Blood Bank of Sukkur Blood & Drugs Donating Society (SBDDS). The project has been completed
with a cost of Rs 30.00 million. Indoor Block of Sukkur
Hospital/Blood Bank has the total strength of 100 beds with full ultra
modern facilities to provide medical and surgical services to the patients of
under served and far-flung areas of interior Sindh, Balochistan and Punjab
provinces.
Sukkur Hospital is serving
since last 20 years to patients of Blood Cancer, Thalassemia & Hemophilia.
This was stated by Medical
Director/Secretary BoG of Sukkur Hospital Dr. Muhammad Naeem, while briefing the
Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani after inauguration the Indoor Block of
the Hospital.
The briefing was attended by
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Federal Minister for Labour, Manpower,
and Overseas Pakistanis Syed Kursheed Ahmed Shah, who is also the Chairman Board
of Governors, Sukkur Hospital, Federal Minister for Health Aijaz Hussain
Jakhrani, Federal Parliamentary Secretary for Health Dr. Mehreen Bhutto, Sindh
Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq, MNAs, MPAs, Islamuddin Shaikh and
others.
Dr. Muhammad Naeem said that
the Sukkur Blood & Drugs Donating Society (SBDDS) is non-political social
welfare organization founded by five Medical Students of Chandka Medical College
(CMC) Larkana with just Rs 600, in February 02, 1988.
He told that the Shaheed
Chairperson of PPP and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto inaugurated the
Blood Bank and Laboratory of Sukkur Hospital, in November, 1998.
He said that Syed Khursheed
Ahmed Shah contributed enormously in raising this institute and making it state-
of- the- art health care facility.
This hospital provides about
fifteen thousand Blood units annually to the patients of Blood Cancer, accidents
victims, woman during pregnancy.
Construction work of indoor
block of Sukkur Hospital was started in 2006 and completed in December 2008, he
said adding, Pakistan Baitul Mal, Engro Chemical, District Government Sukkur,
Cotton Ginners and Local Business Community and Philanthropist of Sukkur
provided financial assistance to accomplish this humanitarian venture run by
Sukkur Blood and Drugs Donating Society (SBDDS).
This block of the hospital
comprising of Emergency Ward, Medical/Surgical ICU, Male medical/Surgical Wards,
Female Medical/Surgical Wards, Children Ward, Neonatal ICU, three Operation
Theaters, Nursing station, Administration Waiting area.
Dr. Muhammad Naeem said that
the prime goal of Sukkur Hospital is to increase access the of-healthcare
services to impoverished communities preventing communicable diseases under the
dynamic leadership and guidelines of Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah Federal Minister
for Labour,Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis to provide health care facilities
particularly to the Thalassanemia/Hemophilia patients including Sukkur, interior
Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan Provinces.
On the occasion Medical
Director of Sukkur Hospital Dr. Muhammad Naeem, submitted the demands and
requirements of the Hospital to the Prime Minister. The demands required that
Sukkur Hospital may be awarded the status of Medical Institute; Medical
equipment worth of Rs 20 million be provided to Sukkur Hospital and Rs 10
million may be allocated for Sukkur Hospital in the Federal/Provincial Budget to
treat needy destitute patients.
On the occasion, the Prime
Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said we have gone through the requirements of
the Sukkur Hospital and directed the Provincial and Federal Ministries of Health
to examine all the demands and requirements with a view to prepare a positive
case for providing maximum assistance to the hospital.
The Federal Minister for
Manpower, Labour and Overseas Pakistanis Syed Kursheed Ahmed Shah, presented the
memento of the Hospital to the Prime Minister.
Later, the Prime Minister
distributed the shields of the Sukkur Hospital to the Sindh Chief Minister Syed
Qaim Ali Shah, Federal Minister Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Dr. Muhammad Naeem,
Wajid Hussain Junejo, Dr. Mehreen Bhutto, Khalid Mehmood Khan, Iqbal Daud
Pakwala, Abdul Jabbar, Dr. Chaman Lal, Asad Umar of Engro Chemicals and others.
Soon after the arrival in
Sukkur Hospital, the Premier inaugurated newly completed Indoor Block of the
Sukkur Hospital/Blood Bank.
The Prime Minister alongwith
Sindh Chief Minister, Federal Ministers, and Provincial Ministers visited the
various sections and wards of the hospital.
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