I have been visiting Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital frequently for the last one year in connection with treatment of my wife. I have been greatly impressed by the systems installed in the hospital where you don’t have to look for a link or recommendation of someone and where it is never divulged as to how much financial assistance a particular patient is getting (if at all he/she is getting). Patients with full and zero payments are treated alike.
I have observed that there are, invariably, large number of patients from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. I have spoken to quite a few of them and found out that they come from every nook and corner of that province. Most of them belong to low income stratum. Irrespective of their financial status, the fact remains, that they face a lot of hardships in travelling up and down with attendants and, then, finding for themselves some place to stay during the treatment period.
Another Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital is being constructed at Peshawar to cater to the people of KP as approximately 40,000 patients from that province have been treated at Lahore during the last 15 years. The initial requirement of funds for Peshawar Hospital is Rs 400 million. I appeal to every Pakistani to donate generously towards this noble cause during the forthcoming holy month of Ramazan so that the hospital is completed within a stipulated period of three years. Let all of us do our bits to build the hospital to rebuild lives in an area where this facility presently does not exist.
AZIZ-UR-REHMAN MIAN
Lahore
