Pakistanis have so far donated Rs 63 billion for Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Prime Minister said

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Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that cancer is a dangerous disease due to its expensive treatment while Pakistanis have so far paid and spent Rs 63 billion for Shaukat Khanum for the treatment of poor patients.

 

PM praises Pakistani nation for donating — Photo: MAK NEWS-21

Addressing the fund raising function of Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that cancer is more dangerous than other diseases because if one is diagnosed with cancer then there is fear of death and secondly its treatment is the most expensive.

 

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"Those who do not have the resources for treatment are most affected," he said. "Unfortunately, cancer is a disease for which there is no immediate cure."

He said that an infected person has to undergo treatment for 5 years, adding that cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease, which leads to more deaths.

The Prime Minister said that thank God that most of the patients can survive if the cancer is diagnosed early today, this is a big change and the fear of getting cancer is no more.

He said that the hospital to be built in Karachi is a very big hospital which is bigger than Lahore where people from Sindh and Balochistan will also come for treatment. I commend my Pakistani nation for this.

He said that there is hardly any nation in the world as open-hearted as the Pakistanis, there is no precedent for the whole nation to build a hospital and run it.

The Prime Minister said that Pakistanis have given Rs. 63 billion to Shaukat Khanum Hospital for the treatment of poor patients and now it has been spent.

He said that there were difficult stages in Shaukat Khanum but in spite of this we did not reduce the treatment of more than 70 and kept our promise. And we didn run out of money.

"We have a shortage of hospitals, cancer patients come every day, but space is scarce and we send them back despite being treatable, that is why we have built a hospital in Karachi and it will be operational by next year," he said. ۔

The Prime Minister said that the state of Madinah had a system of humanity, justice and self-determination and the nations which deviate from these principles are not respected in the world.

He said that we have come on the path which will make Pakistan a great nation.