Agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients in Pakistan
Agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients in Pakistan
A ceremony to sign an agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients under a public-private partnership was held.
The Federal Health Secretary, while giving a briefing at the ceremony, said that free medicines will be provided to cancer patients in Islamabad, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The medicines will be provided in joint cooperation with the Government of Pakistan and multinational pharmaceutical company Roche. Thousands of cancer patients will benefit from this five-year agreement at PIMS Hospital.
Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal has signed an agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients under a public-private partnership, while the MD of a private pharmaceutical company also signed the agreement.
The Health Minister said that 13 million people in Pakistan have fallen below the poverty line due to various diseases. Cancer is a deadly disease whose treatment is very expensive. 98 lakh rupees are spent on a cancer patient over a period of five years.
He said that with this agreement, every 741 patients will be provided with free treatment at a cost of about Rs 10 million per patient on a first-come, first-served basis. The treatment facility will be available at PIMS Hospital to patients from Islamabad, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan.
A ceremony to sign an agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients under a public-private partnership was held.
The Federal Health Secretary, while giving a briefing at the ceremony, said that free medicines will be provided to cancer patients in Islamabad, Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
The medicines will be provided in joint cooperation with the Government of Pakistan and multinational pharmaceutical company Roche. Thousands of cancer patients will benefit from this five-year agreement at PIMS Hospital.
Federal Health Minister Mustafa Kamal has signed an agreement to provide free medicines to cancer patients under a public-private partnership, while the MD of a private pharmaceutical company also signed the agreement.
The Health Minister said that 13 million people in Pakistan have fallen below the poverty line due to various diseases. Cancer is a deadly disease whose treatment is very expensive. 98 lakh rupees are spent on a cancer patient over a period of five years.
He said that with this agreement, every 741 patients will be provided with free treatment at a cost of about Rs 10 million per patient on a first-come, first-served basis. The treatment facility will be available at PIMS Hospital to patients from Islamabad, Azad Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan.
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