Hepatitis screening model project for Nankana.

LAHORE -- Punjab Minister for Health Dr Yasmeen Rashid has said the provincial government is initiating a model project of screening of hepatitis patients in Nankana Sahib district.

She said the initiative was proposed under the Punjab Hepatitis and Infection Control Programme to cope with the disease. The minister said this while addressing the 39th international scientific symposium of the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) here on Wednesday.

KEMU Vice Chancellor Prof Khalid Masood Gondal, Mayo Hospital Chief Executive Prof Dr Asad Aslam Khan, Ameeruddin Medical College Principal Prof Dr Alfred Zafar, Prof Dr Ayesha Shaukat, Prof Dr Mehmood Ali Malik, other senior professors, faculty members and students of the varsity also attended the symposium.

Ms Rashid said that free treatment and medicines were being provided to 60,000 patients across the province under the hepatitis control programme. She further claimed that chronic shortage of doctors in public sector hospitals of Punjab had been addressed through record recruitment of medics.

'Now patients were being provided relief by overcoming the shortage of doctors in...