Bilawal Bhutto inaugurates bone-marrow transplant institute

KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Chairman, Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians, inaugurated the bone marrow transplant institute at Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences.                                                                                                                                                 

As part of his program, he emphasised his goal of bringing free healthcare to the entire country. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that the bone marrow transplant treatment at Gambat would be free of charge during the inauguration. He said that no other institution offered free liver, kidney, bone marrow, and cancer treatment like the Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari further stated that a rapid response emergency facility had been developed in response to the spike in car accidents. The ultimate goal is to establish similar facilities in other places so that victims of fires and other disasters can receive the best medical care possible. "Gambat is now Pakistan's medical capital," he announced. 

"I challenge all the provincial governments of the "country to build a hospital-like Gambat Institute of Medical Sciences, where free treatment for liver, kidney, bone marrow and cancer is provided, " Bilawal articulated. 

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari revealed that Sindh had broken the national record by providing 550 free liver transplants. Among these, 52 per cent were from Sindh, 29 per cent were from Punjab, 15 per cent were from Balochistan, and 3 per cent were from KPK. He said that Punjab had a liver and kidney institute that performs transplants. Still, the number of people from Punjab that Gambat treated was more than the overall patients their hospital admitted.  

He enlightened that "the vision of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was to improve the nation's healthcare system and save the lives of elders. This is our vision of Pakistan," said Chairman PPP. "We want healthcare to be completely free, so no one ca"n say they couldn't g"et treated due to lack of finances. To reach our goal, we have made a large number of investments, especially for tertiary care hospitals." 

When PPP had formed the government, he said that the Waseela-e-sehat card was introduced to help the poverty-ridden.

He stated, "The budget of only three institutes set up by the Sindh government, Gambat" Institute of Medical Sciences, SIUT and NICCVD, is more than the budget of the entire Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Card." 

He further said that the selected government could run the healthcare sector better if some of this money were given to the poor, and the rest was 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.