KARACHI: President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi on Monday inaugurated ‘Sundas Foundation Karachi Centre.’
The center is aimed to provide blood and hematological services to patients.
The President, after inaugurating the Centre, visited Blood Transfusion section of the facility and met patients receiving the treatment over there.
Dr. Alvi asked about the health of the patients and distributed fruit baskets among them.
Earlier, the President was received by the Sundas Foundation President Yaseen Khan and other management of the foundation upon his arrival at the center. He was also giving a detailed briefing about the Centre.
The Sundas Foundation was established in 2000 as a Blood Transfusion Center. Before the launching of the institution many people started unauthorized blood banks on commercial basis.
Such blood banks provided unscreened and contaminated blood unfit for the transfusion. After the establishment of Sundas Foundation all such quacks went away. During the period of 22 years Sundas Foundation has provided d more than 500,000 units of healthy and screened blood and blood products.
