FAiTh – Fight Against Thalassemia – A Patients & Parents Association conducted it’s 3rd Patients & Parents Session at Sukkur Blood Bank & Drugs Donating Society on Monday 12th November 2018
The session was attended by patients, parents & staff of Sukkur Blood Bank. 1500 patients are registered with Sukkur Blood Bank till date.
We briefed them about how can they take better care of themselves, how they can maintain their hemoglobin and ferritin, about prevention, about FAiTh Patient Support Group, how can they spread awareness & how can they help themselves & thalassemia center regarding blood donations.
Sukkur is a city in the Pakistani province of Sindh along the western bank of the Indus River, directly across from the historic city of Rohri. Sukkur is the third largest city in Sindh after Karachi and Hyderabad, and is 14th most populous city in Pakistan, we traveled 475.3 km from Karachi to reach Sukkur. Majority of the people in Khairpur doesn’t understand Urdu / English, their native language is Sindhi.
Our Khairpur / Sukkur Team Leader Areeba Gulzar translated all the talks in Sindhi to make it easy for people to understand.
In the end attendees promised us to follow all the guidelines we shared with them.
Gifts & lunch was distributed among the patients by FAiTh
We are thankful to Sukkur Blood Bank & Drugs Donating Society for giving us chance to interact with patients & parents, for the arrangements & support.
RBC – Regional Blood Centre Sukkur Safe Blood Transfusion Programme. A development project of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, co-financed by the Federal Republic of Germany through KfW Development Bank. RBC Sukkur was inaugurated in February 2018 by Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Sindh Health Minister Dr Sikander Ali Mandhro and Country Director Kfw Development Bank Wolfgang Moellers. It is situated inside Civil Hospital Sukkur. FAiTh is thankful to Dr Hasan Abbas & Dr Rab Nawaz Memon for inviting us and arranging our visit to RBC Sukkur. We were delighted to see the commitment of RBC team, their devotion, the hard work, standard, protocol which is being followed there. The similar standard / protocol should be followed in other blood banks / thalassemia centers too. Safe blood provision should be the top most priority of all blood banks & thalassemia centers like Regional Blood Banks.
FAiTh – Fight Against Thalassemia – A Patients & Parents Association conducted it’s 2nd Patients & Parents Session at Khairpur Fatimid Foundation on Saturday 10th November 2018
The session was attended by patients, parents & staff of Fatimid Foundation Khairpur. According to the administrator there are 300 active patients who visit Fatimid Foundation Khairpur regularly for their treatment.
We briefed them about how can they take better care of themselves, how they can maintain their hemoglobin and ferritin, about prevention, about FAiTh Patient Support Group, how can they spread awareness & how can they help themselves & thalassemia center regarding blood donations.
Khairpur is a city and the capital of the Khairpur District, in Pakistan’s Sindh province, we traveled 437.5 km from Karachi to reach Khairpur. Majority of the people in Khairpur doesn’t understand Urdu / English, their native language is Sindhi.
Our Khairpur / Sukkur Team Leader Areeba Gulzar translated all the talks in Sindhi to make it easy for people to understand.
In the end attendees promised us to follow all the guidelines we shared with them.
Gifts & lunch was distributed among the patients by FAiTh
We are thankful to Fatimid Foundation for giving us chance to interact with patients & parents, for the arrangements & support.
ٹیم سرعام اوچ شریف اور فیتھ فائٹ اگینسٹ تھیلیسیمیا ٹرسٹ اور سوشل بلڈ بینک اوچ شریف نے بلڈ عطیہ آگاہی مہم کی ریلی نکالی، بمقام ڈاکخانہ اوچ شریف بروز ۱۶ اکتوبر ۲۰۱۸ سے الحمدللہ مہم کا آغاز کر دیا گیا ہے، بلڈ عطیہ آگاہی مہم کا آغاز پاکستان زندہ باد کے نعرے سے کیا گیا جس میں الحمدللہ ایک ہزار لوگوں نے بلڈ دینے کی یقین دہانی کرائی۔
FAiTh Karachi Chapter Team Lead خواجہ عبدامعز organized blood camp for his thalassemia center Burhani Blood Bank & Thalassemia Center on 5th September 2018 at Karachi Custom Office.
Collector of Custom Manzoor Sahb also donated blood for thalassemia patients.
Thanks to amazing donors for blood donation, wonderful efforts by Moiz.
An Interactive Session For Thalassemia Patients & Parents was organized by FAiTh Patients & Parents Association in collaboration with Memon Professional Forum on 22nd July 2018 in Karachi.
Event was conducted by Dr Muhammad Usman Sheikh consultant hematologist Aga Khan University Hospital. The event was attended by thalassemia patients & their parents from different thalassemia centers.
The event gave a great chance to our thalassemia fellows to ask questions regarding their treatment openly to doctor.
We are really thankful to Dr Muhammad Usman Sheikh for his time, support and knowledge.
Picture courtesy: our great thalassemia fellow Raza Ahmed
Team FAiTh from different cities celebrated 71st Independence Day
Picture Courtesy : M. Hammad (Karachi) & AŁį Jåppą (Islamabad / Rawalpindi)
FAiTh – Fight Against Thalassemia took some thalassemia fellows of Fatimid Foundation Karachi to PonyCycle Pakistan at Atrium Mall Karachi.
We are really thankful to PonyCycle Pakistan for giving FREE rides to the thalassemia kids, they LOVED it a lot.
Then we took them for Pizza party at Pizza Hut, all the kids enjoyed their meal.
Special thanks to our team members for making the event successful Alhamdulillah, we appreciate our team efforts.
We specially thanks Careem captain Umer, he gifted the ride to our wheelchair bound thalassemia fellow
FAiTh President Ayesha Mehmood was invited as a guest speaker by Hope Of Life on 3rd May 2017 for seminar on thalassemia awareness at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur. Hope of Life arranged free blood grouping to gather more blood donors for thalassemics of Bahawalpur and near by cities / villages.
FAiTh was invited for seminar at Haripur on 31st December 2016, we also visited Haripur Thalassaemia Care And Prevention Center, had interview at Radio Smile FM-88.6 & met GM Lateef Ghee Industries Haripur.
By the help of our generous donors Alhamdulillah we donated 5 infusion pumps, 150 desferal injections, t-shirts, 200 vitamin D injections, heater & 100 cannulas.
