One of the senior citizens, recuperating from his burn injuries, here on Friday, opened the newly installed lift, needed since long, to transfer patients from ICU to Operation Theater (OT) or from emergency to the wards at Burns Centre, Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK).

Many of the outpatient departments (OPD) patients, as well as those admitted to the 66-bed burns care facility, expressed their gratitude to the Friends of Burns Centre-Patient Welfare Society for arranging the needed accessory.

“It was crucially needed for most of us not only to be easily transferred from wards to OT or other departments but also to gain easy and comfortable access to physiotherapy on daily basis,” said Khadija Bano, a victim of an inferno that led to serious casualties a few months ago.

The Burns Centre of Civil Hospital Karachi is only dedicated facility for burn victims belonging to Sindh and Balochsitan.

Faysal Bank President and CEO Nauman Ansari, a major donor to CHK’s Burns Centre, appreciated the NGO Friends of Burns Centre for providing free of charge medical and operational services to the burns victims.

Friends of Burns Centre President Zahid Saeed addressing the guests said the centre had a lift but it was getting much old and constantly giving operational problems. He mentioned that the public sector facility owned by Sindh health department, functional since 2004, has emerged to be a model project of Public-Private Partnership.

Abdullah Feroz, founder of the NGO said mission of Friends of Burns Centre is to act as a model and help maintain international standards in the state-of-the-art treatment centre for the patients.

The ceremony was also attended by doctors and medical staffers of the Burns Centre along with a sizable number of local philanthropists.