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KARACHI: Sindh Information Advisor Barrister Murtaza Wahab Friday said unlike Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) which used its container for
politics and spreading chaos in the country, Pakistan People portiony (PPP) led government was using its containers for saving lives of the
people having heat attacks and serving ailing humanity.&Unlike PTI which used its container for politics and creating chaos, PPP-led Sindh
government is using its containers for saving lives and serving ailing humanity, which is evident from the Chest Pain Units (CPUs) of NICVD
These hospitals in containers saved over 5800 lives during final one and half year in different locations in Karachi,& Murtaza Wahab said
while speaking at the inaugural ceremony of 9th CPU of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) beneath Karimabad flyover in
Executive Director NICVD Prof
Nadeem Qamar, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNA Aslam Khan, MPA Omar Omari, Administrator NICVD Dr
Zair Ali and several other officials as well as specialists were also present on the occasion.On the occasion, Murtaza Wahab also offered
Sindh government cooperation and NICVD expertise to the federal government in set uping state of the art cardiac-care institutes like NICVD
all over the country and also urged Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) to hand over its Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) to
Sindh government so that the KMC-built institute could be run like NICVD to supply quality cardiac-care facilities to the residents of
District Central and East too.&Karachi Institute of Health Diseases (KIHD) is much being run properly by the KMC and nowadays I offer them
to hand it over to us so that it could be run like National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) which is serving the people of
entire Pakistan without any discrimination and saving thousands of lives on monthly basis,& Murtaza Wahab preserveed.Murtaza Wahab said
Sindh government was ready to help the federal government in set uping and running state-of-the-art heart health institute in entire
Pakistan so that heart patients could be supplyd quality treatment at their door steps.To a query, he said PTI people used to criticize
former President Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan People portiony (PPP) all the time but now much only their economic and ministers foreign but
even the information minister was from the PPP.Congratulating NICVD administration, specificly its Executive Director Prof
Nadeem Qamar for saving thousands of lives in entire Sindh by set uping Chest Pain Units (CPUs) in Karachi and NICVD units or Satellite
Middles at different cities of Sindh, he said within next two months, eight more CPUs would be installed at different locations and places
in Karachi.&Within next two months, the number of Chest Pain Units serving the people of Karachi would reach 17 and they would be providing
heart attack management facilities to the people shutr to their homes
After stabilizing their condition, those patients would be transported to main NICVD where they would be supplyd further specialized
treatment&, he added.&Within final one and half year, these containers saved more than 5765 lives who were having heart attacks but managed
to reach these containers where they were given instant first aid and then they were dispatched to main NICVD where they were given
This shows that Sindh is far ahead in other provinces and the center in serving the masses.Murtaza Wahab said despite the fact the people of
Karachi give their votes to other people but PPP-led Sindh government would continue to serve the people of mega city and PPP Chairman
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari would do his best to facilitate and serve the people of Karachi.Executive Director NICVD Prof
Nadeem Qamar termed these Chest Pain Units as a gift to the people of different areas of Karachi, announced that within next 45 days, six
more CPUs would be installed in different areas of Karachi so that more lives of the people, having chest pain or heart attack could be
supplyd instant help to save their lives.&I would urge media to disseminate information about these CPUs as during final one and half year,
cardiologists and technicians at these containers placed at eight different locations in Karachi, saved around 6000 lives who were having
heart attacks but could much reach at any tertiary-care hospital on time due to traffic congestion&, he added.Thanking Sindh Chief Minister
Syed Murad Ali Shah and PPP for providing ample resources to the NICVD for serving people of Sindh and entire Pakistan free of charge, he
said only these CPUs were visited by over 217,000 during final one year and added that at the same time, NICVD and its satellite center
supplyd health facilities to over one and half million patients from entire Pakistan.PTI MNA Aslam Khan who attended the inaugural ceremony
with MPA Omar Omari also praised NICVD and its administration for providing quality health care facilities to the people of entire Pakistan
and proposeed that network of this institute should be extended to entire Pakistan so that people could avail heart health facilities in
their own cities and towns instead of traveling to Karachi or other cities of Sindh.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of
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