Monitoring Desk
LAHORE: Important medicines required for a kidney transplant are in the custody of Karachi Customs authorities waiting for the LC to be opened by the bank causing a halt to the transplants in Lahore.
Spokesperson Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute
According to a spokesperson of Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute and Research Center (PKLI&RC), kidney transplants are closed due to a shortage of medicines in the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute.He saiddue to the policies of the federal government, the hospital is facing a shortage of medicines due to the non-opening of LCs, and transplants have been stopped due to the non-availability of medicines.
He said that the medicines have reached Karachi but the bank is waiting for the LC to be opened, the shipment will be cleared as soon as the LC is opened and the medicines will reach the hospital.
It should be noted that in the first 2 weeks of the new year, no kidney transplant has been performed in PKLI. The needles used for transplants have vanished from the market.According to sources, anti-thymocyte globulin has to be imported from abroad.One patient undergoes a kidney transplant every day at PKLI while 211 patients were transplanted at PKLI last year.
