Dr. Mashoor Alam Shah

KARACHI, Aug 9: The director of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Prof Mashoor Alam Shah, has said that interviews for appointment on contact basis against posts of BPS-17 and above regarding ...

This was stated by JPMC Director Prof Mashoor Alam on Saturday while speaking at the concluding session ...

Dr Mashoor Alam Shah, director of the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical College [JPMC], said that a 14-year-old boy who was bleeding from the mouth, was admitted at the JPMC."Given that there has been so much negative publicity about the spread of the Congo virus in the city and in the media, none of the doctors were willing to treat the boy, for fear of contracting the disease," said Dr Shah."All the doctors and paramedics left the ward refusing to offer any kind of medical assistance to the boy."

The boy had been treated earlier at a private hospital, but was discharged after he started bleeding from his mouth and was brought to the JPMC.However, investigations later revealed that he was suffering from leukaemia and not from the Congo virus.

According to Dr Shah, so far not a single case of the Congo virus has been diagnosed at the JPMC and most of the reports published in various newspapers are incorrect.He feels that the death of the two doctors in Karachi could have been caused by dengue fever."Dengue fever has similar symptoms," he said, adding, however, that this will only be confirmed after the investigations are over.

Talking to APP, the medicine department head of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Prof Mashoor Alam, said that the unchecked exposure of rural population to pesticides, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals as well as irrational use of antibiotics in urban population were increasing the cases of blood cancer.

Referring to the unchecked use of anti-malaria drugs and anti-typhoid medicines, he said that this could damage bone marrow, white blood corpuscles and platelet.

He explained that the bone marrow produced and managed the blood components like red blood cells (carrying oxygen to lungs) while white blood corpuscles built defence mechanism against infections and platelet helped in healing wounds.
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In this regard, Prof Mashoor Alam referred to the plight of 18-year-old Sohail Ahmed, belonging to a remote village in Khairpur and the sole breadwinner of his family of eight, who was admitted to the ward seven of medicine department about a month back in precarious condition manifested through acute anaemia and epistaxis (constant bleeding from nose) besides running with high fever.
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Prof Alam said that at least Rs60,000 were required for bone marrow transplantation of the boy at any of the very few private medical centres in the city having such facilities.

He said that none of the government sector hospitals had the very facility although a surge in the instances of aplastic-anaemia was reported with every passing year.

Prof Mashoor A. Shah of the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre said the smuggled medicine were of dubious quality.
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Prof Shah advised that people should use the medicine only that are supplied by registered suppliers.

Prof Mashoor Alam of JPMC's medicine department said that limb amputation was the ultimate option for patients presenting with gregarine.However, he added, the dressers and the doctors at the ward try their best to delay the traumatic experience for maximum possible time through proper and regular dressing.

Regretting the indifference on part of people in general towards the scenario, he called upon people, particularly the diabetic, to take equal care of their foot as their faces.

He maintained that diabetes was a horrendous disease and reminded that foot infection was one of the repercussions of the disease.He elaborated that even one small wound could take six months to heal.

According to him, it is an equal responsibility of medical professionals to educate the patients in order to preempt the stage, where they may be exposed to the complication.

Moreover, he said that the medical professional should convince those already reporting with wound to ensure proper care and cleanliness besides regular dressing.It may be mentioned here that Diabetes Type-2 accounts for over 90 per cent diabetes cases in the world.

Dr Mashoor Alam Shah, Professor of Medicine at the Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre, while highlighting effects of rains on common man's health said that number of mosquitoes and flies got multiplied after rains, and sewage water was mixed with drinking water, which could cause gastro-enteritis, typhoid, hepatitis-A, Pneumonia and Cholera.

He stressed that media should take public health issues separately and should highlight preventive health education.

To avoid epidemic diseases, drinking water should be stored in a hygienic manner, and added that Sodium, Potassium and other salts should be used in case of diarrhoea, he emphasised.

Dr. Mashoor Alam Shah Professor & Head, Medicine Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Center

Prof Mashoor Alam of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre said diabetics could encounter complications of the eye, heart and kidney if they did not keep the sugar levels under control.Diabetics who had high cholesterol, and who smoked too, were at considerable risk of suffering a heart attack.

One spoonful of sugar, said Prof Alam, contained about 30 calories.One hundred grams of oil had some 900 grams.He was of the view that sugar level should be monitored closely by each diabetic because failure to do so might give rise to complications.