World Haemophilia Day Symposium With Fatimid Foundation

Each year the world reaches out to the bleeding disorder’s community and spreads awareness by celebrating World Haemophilia Day. This happens on the 17th of April, the date of birth of Frank Schnabel, founder of the World Federation of Haemophilia.

Following the world ritual, Fatimid Foundation like every year celebrated World Haemophilia Day at Beach Luxury Hotel by honoring and spreading awareness amongst the haemophilia patients. While highlighting the continuous advances in treatment at Fatimid Foundation, the doctors also tried understanding and paid attention to the issues related to proper care to the wider public.

The celebration started off with Tilawat-e-Quran and was followed by Naat, both performed by Haemophilia patient. Welcome address was given by Dr. Waleed Bin Azhar (COO, Fatimid Foundation). Next on the dice was Dr.Syed Aijaz Ali Zaidi who shed light on how to take care of dental hygiene of the haemophilia patients. Dr.Syed Aijaz Ali Zaidi is an assistant professor of oral medicine at Baqai Medical University.

The patients and attendees were next greeted by Dr. Muhammad Kamran who is consultant gastroenterologist at Baqai Medical University, he explained Gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with bleeding disorder. After Dr. Muhammad, Dr. Shabneez Hussain (consultant haematologist, Fatimid Foundation) explained Point-of-care joint ultrasound in Haemophilia.

Dr. Shabneez Hussain also shed light on the strengths and limitations of Point-of-care joint ultrasound. She ended her speech by thanking Fatimid Foundation for taking care of all the haemophilia patients and the government for the grant that helps the patients. Also, all of these doctors used PowerPoint presentations to carefully highlight every detail of what they conveyed to the audience making everything crystal clear.

This documentary was followed by a speech from the chairman of Fatimid Foundation Lt. Gen. (R) Moinuddin Haider HI (M) and the Chief Guest. Vote of thanks was presented by Dr. Akbar Najmuddin (director, Haemophilia department, Fatimid Foundation). The event came to an ending with the distribution of certificates and shields to honor those who contributed in the commencement of the celebration. In the end, the Haemophilia community left with hope and awareness.