Dialysis unit inaugurated at PEBS Eye and General Hospital
Karachi
April 25, 2021
The Pakistan Eye Bank Society (PEBS) Eye and General Hospital near Nagan Chowrangi inaugurated its dialysis unit on Saturday.
Addressing the inaugural ceremony, PEBS Medical Director Dr Qazi Wasiq shared that before the 1970s, there was no corneal transplant facility in Pakistan. He added that a few philanthropists, doctors and civil society activists launched a movement for this, “after which corneal transplant started in the country”.
The PEBS’s foundation was laid in 1996, he said, adding that currently, the functioning departments and units of the PEBS and General Hospital included an eye department, eye bank and cornea lab, gynaecology and obstetrics unit, dental and maxillofacial unit, cardiac and diabetic unit, laboratory, physiotherapy, and community health care services, under which they managed an eye clinic, Iftikhar Hussain teacher training programme, health care seminars and le