LAHORE: The Punjab government has allocated 50 acre land for the construction of a state-of-the-art liver and kidney transplant centre at a cost of Rs12 billion at Dera Chahal in Lahore.

This was shared at a symposium organised at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on Friday in collaboration with the Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP).

UHS Vice-Chancellor retired Maj-Gen Muhammad Aslam, Adviser to Chief Minister on Health Khwaja Salman Rafique and PAFP President Dr Tari Mian also attended the event.

The UHS VC gave a presentation on human liver on this occasion with the message that “there’s nothing tricky about keeping your liver in good shape. It’s all about a healthy lifestyle”.

Dr Tariq Mian said quacks were responsible for spreading deadly diseases, such as hepatitis, and demanded that a bill against quackery should be tabled in the assembly.

Liver transplant surgeons of Shaikh Zayed Hospital Dr Tariq Ali Bangash and Dr Aamir Latif and one patient, Mazhar Sahi, who had undergone a liver transplant surgery twice, also spoke.

Published in Dawn, May 31th, 2014