PESHAWAR, Sept 26: A doctor has urged the government to enact a law on pre-marriage blood testing. Fatmid Foundation administrator Afzal Hassan Khan said his organization had registered 3,500 patients of thalassaemia and haemophilia.

Briefing journalists, Mr Hassan said the organization provided the facility of free blood screening to the poor people. Dr Tahir spoke about thalassaemia and other diseases transferred through genes. He called upon the government to make a law on pre-marriage blood testing compulsory so that genetically transmitted diseases could be stopped.—Correspondent