AKUH and PBS partner to support therapy of cancer patients.

KARACHI -- The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) and the Patients Behbud Society have entered a partnership with Eli Lilly Pakistan Private Limited (Lilly) to provide access to targeted therapy treatment of cancer patients with limited financial means.

The partnership was announced here Tuesday during an official signing ceremony held at the University Hospital premises in Karachi.

Dr Adnan A. Jabbar, Associate Professor and Section Head of AKUH Medical Oncology on the occasion highlighted disparity in care as a major challenge across the world with cost of treatment a major contributor in low middle-income countries like Pakistan.

Program like this partnership with AKUH and Lilly, helps cancer doctors reduce this gap in treatment outcome by providing highly effective drugs for their patients who may otherwise would not have been able to benefit from them, he said.

Under the arrangement partnership, the company will support 60 percent of the cost of it's medicine for...