Karachi:
For the first time in Pakistan, immediate biopsy reports of alleged cancer patients will be possible in a government hospital. According to development projects for the next fiscal year, the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) will introduce a confocal instantaneous digital pathology system, which allows real -time detection of tumor nature and will spread during surgery.
The suspects of cancer patients will now receive immediate biopsy reports even in government hospitals. The JPMC will become the first public hospital in Pakistan to implement the confocal instant digital pathology system, which allows surgeons to determine the type of tumor and real -time extension during surgeries.
Professor Shahid Rasool, executive director of the Jinnah Karachi hospital, declared that technology was previously available only in private hospitals. However, it will now be installed at the Jinnah Hospital with the support of the Sindh Department of Health under the Annual Development Program of the Sindh Government.
He said that technology processes samples and creates slides during surgery, which allows an immediate determination of whether a tumor is present and, if so, how far it has been extended. Patients will no longer have to wait for 14 to 15 days to obtain biopsy results.
Two advanced units will be purchased at a cost of RS366 million. A unit will be installed in the surgical complex, benefiting the departments of General Surgery, Orthopedics, Thoracic and Ent, while the second unit will be established in the Gynecology Room.
The objective of the project is not only to increase the speed and precision of biopsies, but also to reduce the time that patients remain under anesthesia. Current methods, such as frozen section and central biopsies, take longer to produce reports, which can endanger the lives of patients.
The project also includes training for medical staff and improving technical experience together with the acquisition of modern machines.
Hospital officials said this system will be particularly beneficial for poor and middle -class patients who cannot pay expensive treatments in private hospitals.
