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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government decided to extend free cancer treatment programme following a monitoring and evaluation report showed that it had benefited hundreds of poor patients, officials said.
“It has been decided that the government will allocate Rs1.9 billion for a three-year free cancer treatment programme being provided to patients at oncology ward of Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar,” they said.
The government started two separate free cancer treatment programmes in 2013 including free treatment of blood cancer patients and another for rest of the cancers during which the people received free medicines and diagnostic services regardless of their financial status.
During a presentation made to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Prof Abid Jameel, head of oncology ward at Hayatabad Medical Complex, last week elaborated the progress about both the programmes and said that the cure rate of the blood cancer programme was 90 per cent.
Blood cancer patients require life-long treatment which they can’t afford because the cost of a single patient is between Rs1 to Rs5 million or more. Even the affluent people can’t afford the cost of the treatment.
that the survival rate of patients in the rest of the cancers programme was about 70 per cent which was satisfactory. Those patients required treatment for shorter duration than those of blood cancer patients but the cost beginning from Rs100,000 to Rs1 million was out of reach of patients, he said.
“We requested the chief minister to continue the programme because the people could not afford expensive treatment and were dependent on free medication. He agreed and ordered to submit a PC-1 in this regard. The programme would be approved in the next Annual Development Programme,” he added.
that government carried out monitoring and evaluation of the programme, on the basis of which it agreed to allocate the desired amount in the coming budget.
About 1,300 blood cancer patients benefitted from the programme and 700 from the rest of cancer programme during the past three years, he said.
“According to record, 43 per cent of the patients were in the young age group, the most productive part of life, which affected families and caused poverty. We receive patients from four to 100 years old,” said Prof Abid.
He said that a 101-year-old patient, who started getting treatment three years back, was still alive because they provided the people targeted therapy with latest medicines and techniques.
Prof Abid said that the blood cancer treatment programme was also supported by the Novartis Pharma, which provided 90 per cent of the cost, while 10 per cent expenses were borne by the government.
“During the past three years, the Pharma has spent Rs8 billion on free treatment of the blood cancer patients. In coming three year programme, it would be spending about Rs9 billion because some new drugs would be purchased,” he said.
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PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government decided to extend free cancer treatment programme following a monitoring and evaluation report showed that it had benefited hundreds of poor patients, officials said.
“It has been decided that the government will allocate Rs1.9 billion for a three-year free cancer treatment programme being provided to patients at oncology ward of Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar,” they said.
The government started two separate free cancer treatment programmes in 2013 including free treatment of blood cancer patients and another for rest of the cancers during which the people received free medicines and diagnostic services regardless of their financial status.
During a presentation made to Chief Minister Pervez Khattak, Prof Abid Jameel, head of oncology ward at Hayatabad Medical Complex, last week elaborated the progress about both the programmes and said that the cure rate of the blood cancer programme was 90 per cent.
Blood cancer patients require life-long treatment which they can’t afford because the cost of a single patient is between Rs1 to Rs5 million or more. Even the affluent people can’t afford the cost of the treatment.
that the survival rate of patients in the rest of the cancers programme was about 70 per cent which was satisfactory. Those patients required treatment for shorter duration than those of blood cancer patients but the cost beginning from Rs100,000 to Rs1 million was out of reach of patients, he said.
“We requested the chief minister to continue the programme because the people could not afford expensive treatment and were dependent on free medication. He agreed and ordered to submit a PC-1 in this regard. The programme would be approved in the next Annual Development Programme,” he added.
that government carried out monitoring and evaluation of the programme, on the basis of which it agreed to allocate the desired amount in the coming budget.
About 1,300 blood cancer patients benefitted from the programme and 700 from the rest of cancer programme during the past three years, he said.
“According to record, 43 per cent of the patients were in the young age group, the most productive part of life, which affected families and caused poverty. We receive patients from four to 100 years old,” said Prof Abid.
He said that a 101-year-old patient, who started getting treatment three years back, was still alive because they provided the people targeted therapy with latest medicines and techniques.
Prof Abid said that the blood cancer treatment programme was also supported by the Novartis Pharma, which provided 90 per cent of the cost, while 10 per cent expenses were borne by the government.
“During the past three years, the Pharma has spent Rs8 billion on free treatment of the blood cancer patients. In coming three year programme, it would be spending about Rs9 billion because some new drugs would be purchased,” he said.
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