PESHAWAR: Urological services in NWFP need expansion
PESHAWAR April 13: Frontier province is extremely deficient in urological services and patients in need of kidney transplantation are referred to other provinces for treatment.
Talking to APP here on Tuesday, the General Secretary of the Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons (PAUS), NWFP Chapter, Dr Sajjad Ahmed, said that urological services in the NWFP needed extension and expansion.
Surprisingly, two of the three main teaching hospitals of Peshawar were working without this important speciality. Dr Sajjad Ahmed said that authorities should take measures to expand and upgrade urological services forthwith in the NWFP in the larger interest of the public.
He said the PAUS was planning to hold an international conference of urologists in Peshawar by the end of the current year. The meeting would be the second of its kind as the first one was held here in 1993.
He said there were a lot of well-trained doctors in the public and private sector health institutions but the only thing lacking was the availability of the much-needed urological facilities.
Except for the Lady Reading Hospital, the other two major teaching hospitals - Khyber Teaching Hospital and Hayatabad Medical Complex - have no Urology Department despite the fact that of the total surgical cases, 60 percent patients have urology problems.
In reply to a question, he said, according to the Pakistan Medical and Dental Council rules, every teaching hospital should have a urological unit, otherwise it would not be recognized.
Responding to another question, he said, cystos copy and TUR machines at Lady Reading Hospital had been out of order for the last two years. Repair of cystos copy machine needed Rs200,000 to Rs300,000.
