Sindh Govt Blazes Another Trail in Health Sector
The cost of Gamma Knife treatment is thousands of dollars but Sindh Chief Minister has ordered to carry out procedures free
Gamma Knife has been installed at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) Ojha campus by the Sindh government which is the first in the public sector.
What is Gamma Knife procedure?
It is a computerized painless treatment that delivers highly focused radiation to tumors and lesions in the brain.
Although its name has the word ‘knife’, this procedure does not involve any incisions.
Some 192 “beamlets” of radiation converge on the tumor in the brain and do not damage the surrounding normal tissue.
Great Achievement of #SindhGovt .World Class Radiosurgery System #GAMMAKNIFE installed in Pakistan’s First Public sector Hospital @Dow_Uni #Karachi expensive treatment AT very low cost @SindhHealthDpt #KhushQismatSindhwalo
thanks @MuradAliShahPPP @AzraPechuho @Qasimsoomro pic.twitter.com/QpWquvx764— Waqas Baqar (@waqasbaqarnaqvi) October 1, 2021
The cost of Gamma Knife treatment is thousands of dollars but Sindh Chief Minister has ordered to carry out procedures free.
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Dow has become the first public healthcare facility to have this modern tumor treatment machine.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said each procedure costs Rs 250,000 but the provincial government will bear it.
The performance of the provincial government at macro-level in the health sector has been remarkable over the past few years.
It had also installed a cyberknife facility at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical College (JPMC) and a liver transplant institute in Gambat city.
The people have also praised the Sindh government for making an expensive treatment affordable for the poor people which will save hundreds of precious lives.
