Under the guidance of Vice Chancellor at RMU Professor Dr. Muhammad Umar, the RMU and CLD has initiated a community based program some two months back for screening, diagnoses and treatment of hepatitis C cases in Rawalpindi city. Under the program, union council wise screening to find the missing cases of hepatitis has been started and the 4th successful camp is being organised in this regard in Union Council - 1, Ratta Amral Rawalpindi.

The RMU and CLD started working on elimination of hepatitis to take forward the target set by World Health Organization of elimination of hepatitis from the world by 2030. Low coverage of testing and treatment is the most important gap to be addressed in order to achieve the global elimination goals by 2030, said Dr. Umar while talking to ‘The News’ on Friday in connection with World Hepatitis Day being observed on July 28 around the globe.
After the awareness walk, a free screening and vaccination camp was also organized in which 500 people were screened for hepatitis and 100 people were provided vaccination for hepatitis B.
Source : https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/504439-hepatitis-free-rawalpindi-programme-launched

Posted by : Mansha Yaseen on 2019-07-28