Medical supplies and demands
KARACHI: The wholesale market of medical supplies at Lucky Star is the biggest place of its kind dealing in all kinds of instruments from a simple stethoscope to blood pressure and blood sugar level checking monitors and meters, arm slings, knee braces, cervical collars, wheelchairs, walkers and walking sticks, hospital beds, air mattresses, surgical instruments and what not?
There were just a couple of shops in Saddar dealing in this kind of stuff some 30 years ago when this market first came about, starting from one shop initially and then many more, which opened in its competition. That was when this area became the place to be for medical professionals and hospital staff for acquiring medical equipment and surgical instrument. But these days you also see common people frequenting the market comprising some 35 shops.
“The biggest selling product, among the 1,600 items available here, are the blood glucose meters, which patients come to buy themselves. It shows how conscious people are becoming towards their health. If only they’d taken a little more care maybe they wouldn’t even have needed to buy a meter in the first place,” Shahzad Ahmed of Quality Surgical says.