LAHORE: The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry would continue to fulfill its corporate social responsibilities in a winsome manner. Organizations like Sundas Foundation are like a ray hope because of their matchless services to ailing humanity.
These views were expressed by the LCCI president Sheikh Muhammad Arshad and vice president Nasir Saeed while talking to the Chairman of Sundas Foundation Monoo Bhai here at the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Sheikh Muhammad Arshad said that the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry is not only playing a leading role for the promotion of trade and industry but is also quite active in the social sector. He said that the LCCI would extend maximum cooperation to the Sundas Foundation in its endeavor for provision of health facilities to the ailing humanity.
While paying rich tributes to Sundas Foundation for providing free services to the Thalassemia patients, the LCCI vice president Nasir Saeed said that government should ensure that the citizens are provided with a free-of charge blood screening facility. He also stressed the need for public awareness campaign to make the country free from this disease. He said that today, millions of children across the world were suffering from Hemophilia, which needed immediate attention of the nations individually and collectively.
The LCCI president Sheikh Muhammad Arshad said that increase in number of patients is a matter of grave concern therefore every citizen should play his role proactively to eradicate this menace. He said that Western countries have controlled to disease to the extent through innovative methodologies and Pakistan government should also take cure from them to overcome the challenge.
