Indo-Pak ‘peace clinic’ launched
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KARACHI: Two leading hospitals of Pakistan and India on Friday established a ‘peace clinic’ by conducting a joint surgery procedure at the combined liver ward unit for pre-transplant and post-transplant care in the city, experts from the two countries said.
Speaking at a press conference at the Dr Ziauddin Hospital, the experts said that the Ziauddin and the Apollo hospitals of India had started joint surgery procedures and established a combined liver ward unit at the Pakistani hospital in Karachi on a platform they called a ‘peace clinic’.
Prof Anupam Sibal, group director of the Apollo Hospital and renowned paediatric liver transplant surgeon, spoke on the occasion about the combined kidney and liver transplantation unit that was established in collaboration by the two hospitals.
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He said that they would use the expertise of Indian doctors to treat Pakistani patients.
“I am thankful to our Pakistani friends for giving us the opportunity to utilise our expertise for the benefit of the people of Pakistan,” he added.
The media was informed that the peace clinic had the primary goal of treating kidney and liver transplant patients in Pakistan.
Navaid Aslam, founder of the bilateral venture, said they had taken the initial step to meet the country’s needs for transplantation of kidney and liver.
Earlier, physical check-ups of liver transplant cases for paediatric patients by Prof Sibal and online adult check-up by Dr Subhash Gupta were conducted along with the joint team of the two hospitals.
Published in Dawn, February 21st, 2015
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Feb 21, 2015 07:35am
Thank God for a little sanity between India and Pakistan.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:41am
India is without an iota of doubt the best place to get a transplant at most affordable rates.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:59am
Imagine how much good India & Pakistan can do together if they can overcome this Kashmir nonsense, which is holding 1.4 billion people hostage.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:01am
Very good efforts like this from both country will make this regain peaceful and prosperous has we both use our resources to better being of huminity instead of buying and devolpe deadly weapon for killing on both side in name of self price we would not need USA former ussr china and Saudi Arab more they didnot want to indopak peace as if peace happened then what is value of these nation among us. Don't blame west as they are more. Wise then us look after ww1 and ww2 how quickly they realise that war is no solution and only corporation with each other. Needed
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Feb 21, 2015 08:11am
One small step in the right direction...we need to establish many more on both sides of the border..a big thumbs up
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Feb 21, 2015 08:12am
Dr. Shetty's and several other Indian hospitals have treated Pakistani patients for free or nominal fee for years...But Pakistanis as ever remain ungrateful and hate filled
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Feb 21, 2015 08:14am
Admirable!...both countries should look into ways to improve bilateral relations...unleashing a new era of co-operation...
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Feb 21, 2015 08:21am
Many Pakistanis come to India for specialised treatment but have to wait for months to get a visa. This will solve the visa problem.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:23am
Excellent positive story. Great efforts from both sides. We need such collaboration, we need trade and all this can happen only if there is peace. Money spent in Defense budgets should be used to benefit human population.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:25am
now this is the kind of news that makes mornings good. Good morning everyone.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:30am
What a heartwarming news! More joint ventures in other areas should also come forward e.g in cardiology, Nephrology etc. We have so much to share and give that I wonder how do we find the time to hate each other.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:39am
This is a great initiative. Many people from across the globe visit India for medical reason as India provides qualify health care at low cost. These expertise should be used by all. I would really like to compliment the organizers of this initiative. Only out of the box thinking can bring these two countries closer...
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Feb 21, 2015 08:42am
People of Pakistan will highly benefit by "Peace Clinic"thanks to Prof Anupam Sibal,Dr Subhash Gupta,of Apollo Hospital India,and Dr Asim Hussain of Ziauddin Hospital Karachi,for feeling the complex procedure to go to India for treatment.I still remember my friend Shakil Nagar expired in India,due to delay in procedures he felt in going to India for liver transplant.Such mishaps will be avoided.Once again thanks to the doctors concerned,and congrats to Dr Asim Hussain.
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Feb 21, 2015 08:48am
Indian doctors are world class pakistan can learn a lot
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Feb 21, 2015 09:00am
First regard to these people. Good peoples are every where every time, Asha ki kiran.
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Feb 21, 2015 09:18am
Kidney transplants have been successfully going on for decades at SIUT and Liver transplants at Shifa in Islamabad.
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Feb 21, 2015 09:32am
We have a lot of patient to treat in india but these doctors are going to Pakistan for treating them..what a shame...
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Feb 21, 2015 09:32am
@KN Dear it's quid pro quo. Don't balme us only.
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Feb 21, 2015 09:41am
Good, more co-operation in various fields needed.
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Feb 21, 2015 09:54am
That's a good move majority of the Indians should in the same way these doctors are thinking
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Feb 21, 2015 10:09am
Peace can do wonders!!
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Feb 21, 2015 10:21am
@Hamidu.....thanks for ur information.Yet here are two things involved;
1] Medical procedures are ever improving and so devices and treatment.Exchange
of opinion and practical experience is important for each individual patient.
2]There is some opening for two neighbors in deteriorated environment.Peace
and Cooperation is invaluable.It helps positive outlook too.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:25am
@sahil Dear no doubt they are best but Pakistani doctors are too best in their jobs the difference is about treatment is cheap in India compare to Pakistan.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:29am
@indian Dear there is nothing about world class doctors I believe Pakistani Doctors are much better than Indians the difference is treatment is cheap in India and on huge level. Pakistan need to establish more hospitals like SK hospital so we will be no need to go to neighbors
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Feb 21, 2015 10:39am
@nk enough said. whatever I wanted to say @nk has already said.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:39am
We need each other and complement each other's strength. Pakistan is ahead in few things as is India.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:40am
Why we are two Nation I don't stand?? Just break the briers like German done.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:40am
Good initiative & will help the suffering patients save both money & visa hassles. Lets a few people, live longer & without suffering. However, I doubt whether this will reduce the entrenched hostility in both nations.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:45am
@sahil
I am not sure about that - the "Dehli bug" (similar to MRSA) has infected many medical tourists from around the world.
BUT...
I am so very pleased to read this article.
This is just the sort of constructive venture that Indians and Pakistanis can collaborate on.
Well done to Indians and Pakistanis for this.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:58am
@Dipak Singh
Good.......But politicians of both contries only think about Kashmir because they try to divert our people from sensitive key issues for their benefit .... They don't have a broad mind...but the people have.....it.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:59am
May God bless and we hear such news everyday !
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Feb 21, 2015 11:01am
@sahil yes ofcourse organs biggest black market is inyour country after all
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Feb 21, 2015 11:06am
Thanks God People from both countries wants much more please do something special (Mr. Modi & Mr. Nawaz Sharif) to mend the relationship.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:12am
Good people from both side of the border should come forward to help each other.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:22am
@Tranquil : Like Pakistani missiles are more accurate than Indian missiles,Pakistani atom bombs are more powerful than Indian .etc..etc....Am I right.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:22am
it was good move
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Feb 21, 2015 11:26am
@Dipak Singh
And have the same bomb blasts in India too. No thanks
Sardar Vallabh Bhai patel was more visionary than todays politicians, he knew that a combined India divided on sectarian and religious lines can never progress.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:30am
Sanity prevailed somewhere atleast
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Feb 21, 2015 11:36am
there are loads of Pakistani physicians. We don't need to do this with any country with nefarious designs or comments (judging by the comments on dawn news). No thank you.
Dr Ilahi
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Feb 21, 2015 11:53am
@Black Sabbath exactly, and resolve by plebiscite. Peace and prosperity will prevail. All held up by nonsensical indian politicians, army and mindset.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:54am
They should start this joint venture in Azad Kashmir and Indian occupied Kashmir.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:06pm
@Tranquil well said. Pakistani doctors are far better than Indian doctors. Only medical bills are cheap in India. Must be some conspiracy
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Feb 21, 2015 12:12pm
@Khan-Haqiqi You are right it is a good move. Majority of the Indians will surely think in the same way as these doctors are thinking if honest desire for peace becomes evident.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:42pm
Very good news. Let such moves flourish. Keep aside kashmir for at least 10 years.
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Feb 21, 2015 12:44pm
once i had met a pakistani retired colonel who had brought his son to bangalore heart hospital to get open heart surgery!! he was just bowled over looking at the city and facilities apparently he was referred by some hospital in dubai.... I met him in a metro.. he said he wished visa formalities was better...... i said pakistani's need to get over their ego's for that... well folks people from USA UK and Japan Israel Africa europe Russia come to India for medical facilities!!
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Feb 21, 2015 12:45pm
First sane effort after a long time. Love to read these kind of news. Together we rock and will serve the humanity. Long live and long lasting love of south Asia.
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Feb 21, 2015 01:18pm
@Datta pakistanis don't have to wait to get a visa on medical grounds. I think their visa application is handled on priority basis in such circumstances. please correct me if i'm wrong.
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Feb 21, 2015 01:34pm
@Tranquil What silly you are talking about,many hospital including the ziaudding hospitalis no match for Apollo.Apollo is a giant mulch-speciality hospital chain in India and abroad has may subsidiaries world wide.Pakistani doctors lack expertise and that is the reason they tied up with Apollo.
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Feb 21, 2015 02:16pm
@Mumbaikar ..............
Sir, thanks for such a nice comment ...... This is not a 'small step' perhaps a 'big development' after very long time.
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Feb 21, 2015 03:11pm
@Tranquil I wonder how it's cheaper in India because a Pakistani rupee is worth 1.60 Indian rupee
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Feb 21, 2015 03:13pm
Wow. This is good news. pakistanis will benefit by Indian expertise. Medical tourism is a growing industry in India as most europeans and americans come here for treatment to reduce costs
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Feb 21, 2015 04:58pm
BEST WISHES TO THIS NOBLE EFFORTS.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:53pm
A good step and worth appreciation
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Feb 21, 2015 10:07pm
I hope these transplant surgeries not only remove the disease organs but also diseased and hateful mindset. I hope this small step is just the first step.
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Feb 21, 2015 10:35pm
Kashmir is the main hurdle between Pak and India..everything will be get fine after resolving this problem.
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Feb 22, 2015 07:07am
About three years ago, I met fpur pakistani set of oarents who had brought their young children to the renowned Narayan Hridayalaya Heart Hospital in Bangalore for very complicted heart surgeries. They wrre to leave back after very successful surgeries and I was talking to them in the lobby of the hotel close by where they wrere put up. They were full of praise for the way everything went for them, about how they felt at home here, most times even being mistaken for just local residents, about the friendliness of the hospital staff and doctors etc. Most of all what thrilled them was that there was a mosque in the hospital premises where they could pray every day ! ( Incidentally there is a Temple and. church too, within the complex.) and perhaps their only perved complaint was that food here was mostly vegetarian! Other than that, one could see the overall satisfaction Nd a huge relief that their children were going home fully cured . I too personally applaud such joint initiatives between to two countries, lets leave all the mindless squabling to the politicians, shall we?!
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Feb 22, 2015 08:48am
@Zak
I don't understand these Pakistan fanatics , everything they find k word !!!!. I am 100 % Pakistan will not progress till it uses the K word, Focus on the development on the other region of Pakistan, then seek Kashmir. If you remove religious fanatics across the Kashmir border and I am 100 % sure nobody will be willing to be Pakistani citizen.
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Feb 22, 2015 08:53am
If you see the comments , Mostly of the +ve comments are from India and -ve comments are all from Pakistan. As longs as these fanatics are their , +ve relation between India and Pakistan will only be dream
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Feb 22, 2015 10:18am
@Zak u keep dreaming and we keep progressing
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Feb 22, 2015 11:39am
@Omar : there is something better treatment available in India then Pakistan thats why Indian doctor are welcomed to Pakistan.Even from patient from African countries come to India for treatment.
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Feb 22, 2015 03:46pm
@commonsense Absolutely !! Very well said!! Surgical elimination of diseased organs, lopping off of dieased mentalities. If as some say, Pakistani doctors are better than Indian doctors, it's a matter of pride for me that my neighbouring country has such good doctors.. I am not jealous, merely proud. Let there be more and more peace, developmental, and mutually beneficial initiatives between us both. If there are deficiencies on any side, let the other help overcome them. Love builds, hatred destroys. Let us emphasize commonalities, minimise differences. I can see a new sun rising .......
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Feb 22, 2015 06:21pm
Kudos to Pakistan and Indian Doctors and team for making for doing this great human job.
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Feb 22, 2015 06:27pm
@Azeez can your pakistani missile save any life like our indian doctors
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