The Health City, the first of its kind, will provide housing for patients’ companions as well as a full range of medical tourism services.
The Lungs Care Center and Transplant Unit was officially opened on Wednesday by the foreign minister. He also laid the foundation for the Abdul Qadir Shah Jeelani Institute of Medical Sciences’ Health City and Pharmaceutical Unit in Gambat, Khairpur.
The Health City, the first of its kind, will provide housing for patients’ companions as well as a full range of medical tourism services. Minister also visited the Lungs Transplant Center and laid the foundation for a pharmaceutical sector initiative.
Foreign Minister emphasised that Sindh has a top-notch medical infrastructure that performs better than that of other provinces.
He added that the Gambat Institute is a national organisation that provides free medical care to patients from Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and other areas. Furthermore, according to Federal Minister, expensive treatment options for liver and kidney diseases, which were previously only available in India, are now accessible in Gambat.
In Gambat City, Pakistan, there is a public hospital called the Gambat Liver Transplant Center (also known as the Gambat Organ Transplant Unit). One of Pakistan’s four provincial governments, Sindh’s, provides the funding. For those who are unable to raise the necessary funds to cover the cost of the procedure, its transplant programme provides free liver transplants.
The 50-bed facility, which opened in 2016, was the first hospital in Pakistan to combine a kidney transplant with a liver transplant in a single procedure. The hospital performed 210 liver transplants using living donors in 2020, which is the most ever seen in Pakistan.
A group of nine surgeons at the Gambat Liver Transplant Unit performed 102 kidney transplants and 330 liver transplants from January 2020 to January 2021. Up to 250 patients have been served by its outpatient clinic. Currently, it is Pakistan’s only public sector transplant facility, performing 3 kidney and 6 liver transplants from living donors each week.