KARACHI, April 21: The JPMC Emergency Department catering to hundreds of trauma and accident victims daily from across Karachi and its suburbs had its most updated emergency operation theater formally inaugurated on Wednesday.

Dr Z.A.Kazi, one of the most senior orthopaedic surgeons of the country and the first head of surgery department, JPMC on the occasion urged the concerned doctors and staffers to compliment efforts made for establishment of the facility with their zeal to serve needy patients.

"The spirit to treat ailing humanity with humility and dedication must not be missing," he stressed. The coordinator, Prof Hasan Aziz remarked that" Accident and Emergency Foundation" was an amalgamation of donors including Tabba Foundation, Patients Aid Foundation and Jinnah Society (comprising JPMC doctors) and that the EOT Complex holds provision for necessary surgical procedures under emergency conditions besides anaesthesia and recovery rooms along with all the supporting services.

Highlighting importance of public-private partnership in context of Pakistan, he mentioned that the total amount of national health budget if distributed among the total population will leave the people with no more than a single tablet of any low cost pain killer - hence philanthropists have to support public health projects.

Mentioning that 50 per cent of funds were raised by JPMC doctors for the complex, he said this was the most updated and well equipped operation theater. Prof Kazi Abdul Shakoor, JPMC Director in his address said the present government has raised the budgetary allocation and that realizing the importance of JPMC a number of projects have been completed with government assistance and private support at JPMC during last few years. -APP