Comedian Iftikhar Thakur plans hospital for kids with thalassaemia.

LAHORE -- Known TV and stage comedian Iftikhar Thakur has plans to build a hospital at his native town Mian Channu for the children suffering from thalassaemia.

Talking to Dawn, Mr Thakur said he wanted to build a state-of-the-art facility that would provide free of cost treatment to the children with thalassaemia. He said that work on the hospital that would also provide liver transplant facility to the patients in need, would begin in January 2021.

He said he decided to build the facility when doing charity work in a hospital in Multan, he felt that there was a lack of treatment facilities for children with thalassaemia in the country. 'When I worked on this subject, I came to know that there were mobile hospitals for such children [in some countries]'.

He said that later during a show in the United Kingdom (UK), he appealed for donations for a mobile hospital, adding that responding to his appeal one of his fans donated funds for the facility that was working here. Mr Thakur said that only in south Punjab, there were over 25,000 children registered as thalassaemia patients.

He said he held late journalists, poet and playwright Munno Bhai in high esteem who...