Amid Indian attacks: Doctors volunteer en masse after PIMA’s emergency appeal

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ISLAMABAD: Dozens of Pakistani doctors, surgeons, and health care professionals voluntarily introduced their services after an emergency appeal from the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA), as Indian airstrikes targeted military and civilian installations across Pakistan.

During the rapidly mobilized regional enmity, Pima activated its national response network and offered free treatment for all war casualties.

Prof. Dr. Atif Hafiz Siddiqui, the central president of the PIMA, confirmed that the association received tremendous reaction from medical professionals. “Surgeons, traumatic experts, anesthesologist and other articles have come forward to serve the country from all over the country,” he said.

Pima also officially offered free medical treatment to civilians and military personnel injured during the attacks. His two hospitals in Muzaffarabad-Kashmir Surgical Hospital and Pima Alhajri Hospital were nominated for this purpose and were equipped to handle the trauma and surgical emergency.

Although there was a consensus on the ceasefire between Pakistan and India after Syria, Professor Siddiqui said that Emergency Medical Teams and hospitals of Pima were more warned. He stressed, “This war is critical, and we are completely running the infrastructure of our response.”

Pima’s cooperation and preparation letters were sent to Federal Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal, NDMA Chairman LT General Janam Haider Malik, Army Surgeon General LT General Arshad Naseem, and provincial health officials in Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Along with the efforts of the Pima, the Sindh Blood Transfusion Authority (SBTA) reaction, the appeal of the Capital Hospital, and the NEOC activation, unity, professionalism and humanitarian commitment reflects the growing national commitment to face any health emergency.

In Karachi, SBTA announced an emergency in blood banks in all public and private sector across the province, which poses a progressive threat.

In formal communication with District Health Officers, SBTA Secretary Dr. Dor-Naz Jamal instructed all blood banks to ensure enough reserves of blood and necessary products and remain operational under emergency protocol.

“All district focal people want to closely harmonize any blood demand for emergency,” said Circular. Sindh districts – including Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Score, and Shaheed Benazir Abad – were placed on high alert.

In Islamabad, Professor Dr. Naeem Taj, Executive Director of Capital Hospital, made a heartbreaking public appeal for blood donations, urging healthy citizens to donate blood to ensure timely treatment of victims of conflict. “Our hospitals must be prepared, and we need it, we need a voluntary blood volunteer,” he said.

On the other hand, the Ministry of National Health Services activated the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC) to integrate the national level response to the health sector.

Dr Mumtaz Ali Khan, from the National Institute of Health (NIH), has asked all major hospitals in Islamabad to immediately nominate the focal people to integrate with the NEOC for rapid medical deployment and real -time data sharing. The NEOC will serve as the center of medical logistics, treatment planning, and trauma preparation management in the context of another addition.