The rehabilitation centres for the addicts especially for women and children are being set up in the city to make Lahore a drug free city, said Minister for Law, Excise and Taxation Finance Mujataba Shuja ur Rehman while talking to various delegations of doctors and NGOs on Tuesday.
Rehman said that Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases (OPD), which is 4th main cause of deaths in the world and 600 million people are victims of this disease in the world, whereas, according to WHO 3 million people die each year in the world due to these complications. He said that usually smokers become the victim of drug addicts and later on become patients of fatal diseases like OPD, TB and even cancer.
He said that radiotherapy machines had been set up in the teaching hospitals whereas for the treatment of breast cancer, mammography machines have also been provided to teaching hospitals. He said that the majority of the patients present with advance disease requiring palliative care, radiotherapy is the most cost effective modality for 90 percent of these patients and Punjab has largest number of radiotherapy oncology treatment facilities in the country, follow up and multi-disciplinary combined clinics, teaching of oncology of under-graduate and postgraduate students, research clinical trials, fund raising for treatment of poor cancer patients were minutely observed and focused by the oncologists, he added.
