Federal Minister for Housing and Works Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada visited the Thalassemia Centre of Sundas Foundation in F-9 Park Islamabad. He inaugurated the Activity Room established for thalassemic children and the electric cart donated by Allied Bank to facilitate the transportation of children from the outer gate. The Minister, while addressing the ceremony as chief guest, deeply praised the selfless work of the foundation that being a pioneer non-profit organization of its nature, is providing free-of-cost blood transfusion services to thousands of children countrywide. He admired the spirit of senior management to serve humanity. He also remembered the humanitarian work of the founding chairman Muneer Ahmed Qureshi alias Munnu Bhai who demonstrated profound involvement in the treatment of patients suffering from Thalassemia. Minister stressed the necessary legislation, awareness, and mandatory lab tests before marriage and the use of modern research to prevent thalassemia in Pakistan. On this occasion minister distributed gifts among the children. In his address, the Director Sundas Foundation Islamabad Air Vice Marshal HI(M) Aftab Hussain described the functions and operations of the foundation, its current services, and its challenges. He stated that the foundation has been working for the last 26 years and nowadays it has expanded its services to nine major cities in Pakistan with twelve established centers. This organization is transfusing 30,000 blood bags every year and supplying 250-300 units of healthy and screened blood and blood products daily. The center in Islamabad since its inception six years ago, has benefited 52243 patients with any sort of blood disease or disorder. The Centre provides free-of-cost blood transfusion services, medicines, testing, and investigation facilities. He further informed that to provide a holistic environment an activity room for religious, academic, and extracurricular activities for the thalassemic children has been established. This is the first thalassemic center in the world to have this facility. He counted escalating inflation and varying blood donation trends in society as the major challenges of the organization. In the end, senior actor and director Mr. Khalid Abbas Dar gave a vote of thanks and expressed gratitude to the organizers, donors, and the chief guest.
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