Lahore:
Punjab Health Minister Yasmeen Rashid has said that health cards are being issued for children suffering from thalassemia. There will be blood test for thalassemia before marriage.
Addressing a function in Lahore, the provincial minister further said that health cards were being issued for the children suffering from the disease. Screening has been done.
Health cards for children with thalassemia are being issued from Lahore. Health cards will be available from January to March. He further said that Fatima Jinnah is going to set up an institute in Medical University.
On the other hand, Hamza Foundation Welfare Hospital Peshawar welcomed the inclusion of treatment of Thalassemia children in Punjab in the Health Justice Card and demanded that the Thalassemia patients of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa be included in the Health Justice Card program.
According to Ejaz Ali Khan, the founder of the organization, the Punjab government and Health Minister Dr Yasmeen Rashid welcome the inclusion of poor and needy thalassemia patients in the Health Justice Card but at the same time demand that Prime Minister Imran Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mehmood Khan along with Dr Yasmeen Thalassemia He is also the General Secretary of the Federation. He will also make the treatment of these patients in Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa possible through Health Justice Card so that they too can lead a healthy life. Start this series in the provinces.
