Bureau Report
Muzaffarabad:Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, Sunday, while appreciating the contributions of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission’s (PAEC) in the health sector, termed provision of treatment to the cancer patients with the latest facilities as the ‘biggest service to humanity.’
Addressing an inaugural ceremony of Kashmir Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy (KINOR) in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, he said that there could be no better profession and noble cause to serve those at their doorsteps who had to travel from Muzaffarabad and other remote areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir to Islamabad for getting treatment for the life-threatening disease.
In his remarks broadcast live on national TV channels, he commended the great efforts of PAEC and other related authorities. He said that they should realize the pains and sufferings of those who had no resources to meet expenses for the treatment of fatal diseases like cancer.
Citing his personal experience, the prime minister said that he himself was a cancer survivor and its treatment was expensive, adding that they should consider the sufferings of those patients who came from the remotest parts of the country to big cities for the treatment and could not meet the expenses.
Lauding PAEC’s services, he stressed upon taking further steps and doing more to contain the disease ‘by giving a smile and ray of hope to the cancer patients.’
AJK Prime Minister Faisal Mumtaz Rathore, ministers, parliamentarians and health experts attended the ceremony.
Speaking on the occasion Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr. Raja Ali Raza Anwar highlighted the PAEC’s contributions in the health sector.
