ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM) and Pakistan Thalassemia and Welfare Society (PATHWEL) on Tuesday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) pledging to joining hands in supporting bone marrow transplants of poor patients suffering from various blood disorders.
PBM Managing Director, Amir Fida Paracha and PATHWEL President Maj. Gen. (R) Suhaib Ahmed inked the MoU in the presence of Vice President PATHWEL, Dr. Jamal Nasir at PBM’s head office. The MoU explains the PBM’s support for Bone Marrow Transplant of poor and deserving patients referred by PATHWEL. Addressing the ceremony, PBM Managing Director Amir Fida Paracha said a poor family cannot afford the costly treatment of Bone Marrow Transplant. As well as supporting the poor patients of cancer, cardiac, kidney, hepatitis and other diseases, PBM is also facilitating thalassemia patients for their treatment, blood transfusion and medicines. On the occasion, Maj. Gen (r) Suhaib Ahmed highlighted that PATHWEL has established a centre of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplant which is providing indoor and outdoor hospital facilities exclusively for the patients suffering from various blood diseases like thalassemia, aplastic anemia and blood cancers.
Dr. Jamal Nasir, in his address, expressed his gratitude to PBM, Managing Director for extending the support to PATHWAY and anticipated for the benefit of many poor patients of the country.