Medicines Worth Rs 5 Mln Provided To Needy Cancer Patients

The PINUM Patients Welfare Society (PPSW) has provided medicines worth Rs 5 million to the poor and deserving cancer patients during last one year.

FAISALABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 8th Jun, 2018 ) :The PINUM Patients Welfare Society (PPSW) has provided medicines worth Rs 5 million to the poor and deserving cancer patients during last one year.

A spokesman of PPWS told that PINUM Hospital was established in 1996 as a diagnostic centre. However, proper oncology department was added in 2004. The PPSW was set up in 2008 in order to facilitate the poor and deserving cancer patients of this region. The society managed to create a PINUM pharmacy in 2010 to provide cancer related medicines by maintaining its cold chain. He told that this pharmacy has more than 5,000 medicines readily available for the different types of cancer patients, adding that these medicines are either provided free or on a very nominal price in order to favor the cancer patients.

The spokesman further said that last year 35,000 patients availed the facility of PINUM pharmacy. Similarly society also provided refrigerators, air conditioners and furniture involving Rs.5 lac to facilitate the cancer patients.

The spokesman has also made a humble appeal to the local philanthropists to donate generously to the PPWS so that the deserving cancer patients could be provided much needed relief.