THE Sindh health department has sent a summary to the chief minister for the approval of a special fund for free treatment of serious blood diseases (thalassaemia) of children. We admire the health department for this step. The problem is that the health department made a summary for treating free only 100 patients in a year, while there are 60,000 patients in Sindh alone. Many of them die for lack of treatment. Proper treatment costs about Rs3,500,000 which the poor cannot afford.

I request the chief minister to buy the necessary technology and machinery and build a hospital for 60,000 patients.

Adil Awan

Karachi

Published in Dawn, August 18th, 2017