KARACHI, Oct 16: The Hamdard University on Saturday dispatched its second team of 10 doctors along with medicines and blood units to the areas devastated by the October 8 earthquake.
The team, comprising orthopaedic and general surgeons, as well as physicians, would join the first batch of 40 doctors and paramedical staff sent by university to Mansehra where medical treatment was being provided to quake victims day and night.
The Hamdard University teams are equipped with surgical items and medicines worth Rs2 million.
In addition, the university’s faculty members, staff, doctors and paramedical staff have contributed their one-day salary to the President’s relief fund, according to the HU Registrar. Capt (r) Ashfaq Agha.
SIUT: The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) has expanded its quake relief efforts by making its third dialysis unit comprising four machines fully operational in Muzaffarabad. This unit is in addition to the two already operating in Abbotabad and Mansehra.
SIUT team is providing dialysis services round the clock to the patients with acute renal failure caused by crush injuries and blood loss.
About 25-30 per cent of the patients are being treated to save them from kidney failure.
The institute has also set up operation theatres where surgeries are being performed round the clock.
The dialysis and surgery facilities are supported by fully operational laboratories at all the three centres.
Remarkable assistance has also been provided by Prof Mehmet Haberal, President of the Baskent University, Turkey and founder of the Middle East Society of Transplantation, who is an expert in treating trauma patients and has rendered tremendous services during the recent earthquake emergencies in Turkey.
The expert and his institutions have provided two dialysis machines and six tons of medical supplies brought in from Turkey by a special cargo plane.—PPI
