SUKKUR: The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) opened its Chest Pain Unit, named after late Mir Farooq Khan Jakhrani, on the premises of Jacobabad Institute of Medical Sciences (JIMS) on Thursday.

Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Prisons Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani, who inaugurated the unit at a special ceremony, said the unit had been named after his elder brother Mir Farooq Khan Jakhrani who could not get timely treatment after sudden cardiac arrest and died because the city had no healthcare facility for heart patients.

He said the facility would now help save lives of cardiac patients of Jacobabad and adjoining areas as well as people from Balochistan.

He said that even after an “engineered” defeat in election he was still very much peoples’ representative and he thanked Allah for that. What had those who had won election through “rigging” done for people of Jacobabad till date, he asked.

He said that if the federal government had truly been an elected one there would not have been ay rifts between the Centre and provinces.

He said in answer to a question that in past the Pakistan Peoples Party government had successfully overcome wheat crisis but the present government itself helped create it by exporting wheat at cheap rates.

The inauguration ceremony was attended by NICVD executive director Dr Syed Nadeem Qamar, JIMS director Abdul Wahid, Deputy Commissioner Ghazanfar Ali Qadri and others.

Jakhrani also inaugurated newly-built Darbar Hall in deputy commissioner’s office.

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2020