Karachi: Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (T?KA) continues to support Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center(JPMC), one of the largest “Training and Research Hospital” in Pakistan. T?KA updated the ultrasound devices (Color Doppler) which are used in the Radiology Department of the Hospital, providing free health services. The handing-over ceremony was attended by HE Dr. Cemal Sangu, Consul General of the Republic of Türkiye in Karachi, Halil ?brahim Ba?aran, T?KA Karachi Coordinator, Mushtaq Chhapra, Chairman of Patients’ Aid Foundation, Shabbir Diwan, Board Member of Patients’ Aid Foundation, Prof. Dr. Tariq Mahmood, Board Member and Faculty of Radiology at JPMC, doctors and lecturers.
During the handing over ceremony, which was held after visiting the projects carried out by T?KA in the Hospital, Dr. Cemal Sangu, Consul General of the Republic of Türkiye in Karachi, stated that the transformation of JPMC since the early 1990s is remarkable and expressed his gratitute for T?KA’s contribution to this transformation in the hospital.
Prof. Dr. Tariq Mahmood, Board member and faculty of Radiology Department, stated that T?KA projects carried out in the hospital has a great social impact and provides important contributions especially for families with insufficient financial situation. Dr. Mahmood thanked T?KA and Türkiye for its uninterrupted support and stated that T?KA projects constitute an important model in the field of health.
Expressing his pleasure to see the contribution of T?KA projects to the transformation of the Hospital, Halil ?brahim Ba?aran, Head of T?KA Karachi stated that T?KA will continue to contribute to JPMC, which has a very significant place in Pakistan’s health services.
T?KA, carried out dozens of important health projects in Pakistan since 2010, supplied 5 ultrasound devices to JPMC in 2019, and established the first modern operation theatre in the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department of JPMC in 2021. With the ultrasound devices provided to the radiology department, 351,000 patients were scanned free of charge between 2019 and 2024, while 1,850 operations were performed free of charge in the operation theatre. T?KA, which also provided to the newborn department a newborn hearing screening device which has been detecting the hearing problems at early ages, continues to contribute to the development of the friendly and brotherly country Pakistan in the field of health with its high added value projects.
