Advisor to CM Sindh on Information, Law and Anticorruption Barrister Murtaza Wahab has said that unlike federal government which is making healthcare unaffordable by increasing prices of medicines, Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led Sindh government is providing quality healthcare facilities to masses near to their abodes which is evident from establishment of Satellite Centres and Chest Pain Units of National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in the province.

Murataza Wahab said while speaking at inauguration ceremony of 8th Chest Pain Unit of NICVD at Landhi no 3 1/2 area here on Tuesday. Karachi Mayor Waseem Akhtar, Executive Director NICVD Prof. Nadeem Qamar, Amin Hashwani, eminent cardiologist Prof. Nadeem Hassan Rizvi and other senior physicians and officials were also present on the occasion.

"During last one year, seven Chest Pain Units of the NICVD saved over 5,000 lives of people who were having heart attacks while over 150,000 people approached these CPUs who were given first aid and medical advice", he said adding that NICVD was planning to establish eight more such CPUs in different places in the city so that more lives could be saved.-PR

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