Local, foreign medics at loss over mysterious disease

LAHORE - A high-powered medical board of senior doctors constituted by the chief minister Punjab in its recommendations, also endorsed by the team of foreign doctors, sent to the CM Secretariat said that the treatment of three children, who belong to an earthquake-affected family, rarely exists in the country as well as abroad.

There is no need of sending the children abroad and should be provided education and medical treatment in Pakistan, they further recommended.

The medical board was comprised Anwar A Khan Secretary Health Punjab, Prof Dr Javed Akram Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College / Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Prof Dr Amir Aziz, and Prof Dr Tahir Masood, Dean Children’s Hospital Lahore.

The team of foreign doctors included Dr Muhammad Ayub, Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychiatry of Mental Retardation Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust, & University of Durham UK and Dr John B Vincent, PhD Research Scientist & Head Molecular Neuropsychiatry & Development, Associate Prof, Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Medical Sciences University of Toronto.