Pakistan to issue its first ever haemophilia guidelines to provide international standard treatment.

KARACHI -- With the cooperation of World Haemophilia Federation and Haemophilia Foundation Pakistan, for the first time in Pakistan, the drafting of guidelines has been started to ensure the treatment of haemophilia patients according to international standards. In this regard, a National Haemophilia Treatment Guideline Conference was organized in a local hotel under Haemophilia Welfare Society Karachi in which medical experts from different cities of the country participated.

Medical experts said that with this guideline, doctors and other medical staff will be able to provide treatment and care to hemophilia patients according to international standards and haemophilia patients will also be able to live a normal life like healthy people.

Speaking at the event, Raheel Ahmed, founder and CEO of Haemophilia Welfare Society Karachi, said that there is no government-level treatment facility for such patients in Pakistan and accordingly there is no haemophilia hospital, due to which the people affected by it and their families suffered here and there for treatment.

He said that there may be more than 5,500 haemophilia patients in Sindh alone, out of which more than 1,000 have been registered in the Haemophilia Welfare Society.

Other speakers included Director Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority Dr. Durre...