The National Medical Newspaper Pakistans First Independent Medical Periodical from Karachi Vol. 50 No. 05 August 15-31, 2017 Published Fortnightly Reg. No. ID. MC-153 ISSN 1728-1520 Controlled Circulation Prof Fareeduddin Pakistan mourns Dr Adeeb inaugurates UK announces Inside Baqai: a memoriam 02 the loss of its ... 03 SIUT Larkana unit 09 $130 million for 12 Serious efforts underway Rising dengue, to bridge treatment gap in mental disorders chikungunya cases MN Report ISLAMABAD - The implementation of the World Health Organisation's Mental Health Gap Action haunt Karachiites Programme provides an evidence- MN Report Sindh health, public health departments and the based solution KARACHI - Rising cases of dengue and KMC are not able to control mosquitoes and to bridge the chikungunya continue to haunt the citizens of overflowing gutters in almost areas of the city huge treatment the port city and public health authorities are are favorable breeding grounds for the disease- gap in mental, clueless how to control mosquitoes, the main carrying vectors, especially houseflies and neurological vector of these diseases. mosquitoes. and substance use disorders in The city has witnessed a Karachi Mayor Waseem Pakistan. rising trend of dengue Akhtar says that the This was the consensus achieved and chikunguya at both hospitals and during a two-day planning for government and private dispensaries run by the implementation of WHO Mental hospitals and clinics. Karachi Metropolitan Health Gap Action Plan (mhGAP) in Both diseases require a Corporation (KMC) are four selected districts of Pakistan lot of money for proper providing treatment namely Hyderabad in Sindh, Quetta treatment which many facilities to patients of poor and low income dengue and in Balochistan, Rawalpindi in Punjab, families could not afford chikungunya. He said and Peshawar in KPK. easily. fumigation process has Following the Training of Trainers There is no specialized already been under way (TOTs) held in December 2016, the dengue and chikunguya wards in the government in the city. However, he complained that the Ministry of Health, supported by WHO hospitals and the laboratory tests of both viral KMC is facing severe fund crunch as the port Collaborating Centre for Mental diseases are pretty costly and not available free city is not getting a judicious share of financial Health located in the Institute of of cost in many government hospitals. Continued on Page 11 Continued on Page 11 Rs250m reappropriated fund Founder: Ayaz Mahmood Publisher: M Hassan Mahmood for KP kids hospital lapses Chief Executive: Syed Hashim Hasan /MedicalNewsPk MN Report Online Editor: Haseeb Uddin ISLAMABAD - The Rs250 million fund /MedicalNewsPk Assistant Editor: Dr Amna Nayyar reappropriated to the Khyber Institute of Child Honorary Advisor: Health (KICH) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has lapsed Dr Sulman Akhtur after the federal government's alleged failure to Manager Production issue authorisation for the release of funds. & Coordination M Irfan Ali For the second consecutive year, the planning medicalnewspk.com Advertising Manager ministry has failed to issue authorisation for the Tel: 021-35833172 SM Shakil (0300-2559344) release of re-appropriated amount of Rs250 million 021-35872289 Business Executives to the KP children hospital and the funds were Khawaja Akhlaq Ahmed lapsed, official sources told media. Haroon Rashid (0342-2393917) (Islamabad: 0300-9710774) On one hand, they said, the planning ministry was busy in releasing authorisation of billion of rupees Designing & Layout Sh M Sadiq Ali Continued on Page 11 Call made for holding Intl Moot Prof Fareeduddin Baqai: to adopt ethical transplant practices a memoriam MN Report MN Report important miracles of the 20th century KARACHI - Prof. Dr. Fareeduddin KARACHI - The International for improving the lives and health of Baqai, the Chancelllor of Baqai Transplantation Society has called for millions of people. medical University, passed away on holding an international conference to He pointed out that great sacrifices and 10th July 2017 at the age of 82 years, chalk out a strategy as how to create an clinical advances of dedicated health and was laid to rest at Baqai Medical University. ethical transplantation program professionals and countless act of Dr. F.U. Baqai belonged to an illustrious family of Delhi. successfully at a global level. generosity has established shining His forefathers migrated from Iran to Delhi during the Prof Jeremy Chapman, the visiting renal example of human solidarity. The visiting Mughal rule. Two brothers of the family Baqaullah and physician from Australia who is also the Australian experts however regretted Zakaullah rose to eminence in the profession of TIB. Editor-in-Chief of the Transplantation that these accomplishments have been The descendants of Hakeem Baqaullah came to be Journal made this call at a workshop tarnished by numerous reports of known as Baqais. When Dr. F.U. Baqai was only 5 years arranged by Sindh Institute of Urology trafficking in human beings who are used old his father Hakeem Nizamuddin died. During the and Transplantation (SIUT) to discuss as source of organs and of patient tourist communal mass massacre which preceded the partition various issues concerning renal from rich countries who travel to purchase of India, Dr. F.U. Baqai's mother migrated from Delhi to transplantation. Prof Chapman was organs from poor people. Karachi with her 5 sons. It was indeed a trying time for speaking on his topic of International Discussing the various aspect of the illicit her. Having lost all she had, she took good care of her efforts to create ethical transplant trade, Chapman said poverty and family. She certainly did a fine job ensuring that each of program. inequitable economic resources in many her sons got higher education with her small earning by Prof Chapman who is the Director of parts of the world are main cause of this dress-making and sewing for APWA. The brave lady Renal Medicine at Westmead Hospital growing menace. He said unfortunately breathed her last in 1992. Dr. Baqai had to face a real of Sydney and the past President of Pakistan is one of those countries which hard time to continue his education and also maintaining International Transplantation Society said has a strong breeding ground for the family doing odd jobs. organ transplantation is one of the Continued on Page 15 Dr. F. U. Baqai was born on 22nd May, 1935 in Delhi and did his MBBS in 1958 from Dow Medical College, Karachi. He got a chance to start his career in opthalmology at Spencer Eye Hospital, but being interested in Surgery and finding "eye", a small field for him, he moved to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and got a chance to be attached with a teacher of teachers Col. Saeed Ahmed who strengthened his roots of Surgery and got him sent to England for fellowship in Surgery which he got in 1965. Of course, it was an earning and learning process. He obtained his FRCS from Edinburgh and FICS in 1965. He was elected as a Fellow of the Pakistan College of Physicians and Surgeons (FCPS) in 1993. He served the Pakistan Navy from 1965 to 1969 as Surgeon Commander at Combined Military Hospital Rawalpindi during the war in 1971. He Continued on Page 11 PMA criticises Punjab Govt on young doctors strike MN Report KARACHI - Pakistan Medical Association (Centre) expressed much concern about the health of the patients and their mounting sufferings due to the young doctor's strike in Punjab. Secretary General, Pakistan Medical Association (Centre), Dr SM Qaisar Sajjad, asked the young doctors should not close the emergency services at any cost because it is not only against their oath but also unethical and inhuman. He said although Punjab Government's inefficient and faulty policies are responsible for this chaos but thereafter doctors cannot refuse to examine the ailing people just for the sake of their interest. "We are called doctors because of our responsibilities of examining the patients but if we refuse our patients then we are not doctors," he further said. He said young doctors have been on strike for a long time but the Punjab Government has failed to resolve this issue. This shows the non-serious attitude of the government towards health delivery system and the miseries of the poor people. He strongly demanded that young doctors' issue should amicably be addressed to restore the health services in Punjab, so that the sufferers of this episode should not face any more trouble. 02 MEDICAL NEWS / August 15-31, 2017 Pakistan mourns the loss of its 27 more dengue cases surface in Karachi Mother Teresa, Ruth Pfau MN Report MN Report KARACHI - 27 more dengue fever Society of Pakistan, cases were reported in Karachi city, KARACHI - The founder of the National Leprosy where leprosy patients are taking the patients toll to 410 in the Control Programme in Pakistan Dr Ruth Pfau, treated. city since 1st January 2017. passed away at a private hospital, an official of the She was granted Pakistani Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) said in a citizenship in 1988-89 and received numerous statement. accolades for her services.She has treated over Dr Pfau, 87 was ill and admitted to the ICU of a 50,000 families since the inception of the centre. private hospital few day ago where she passed The funeral mass will be held on 19 August, 2017 away. Dr Pfau has dedicated her entire life to at 11:00 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, and would be treating patients in Pakistan. She founded the Marie laid to rest in the Christian Cemetery (Gora Adelaide Leprosy Centre in Karachi and in all Qabrastan). provinces of Pakistan including Gilgit-Baltistan. Meanwhile, A meeting of Central and Karachi office As per weekly report issued by Dr Pfau has been living in Pakistan since 1960 bearers and senior members of Pakistan Medical Prevention and Control Program for and came to the country when she just 29.