Punjab govt's Chronic Myeloid Leukemia programme: Supply disruption forces patients to get drugs from market

LAHORE: The Punjab government’s life-saving mega Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) programme suffered a major setback due to three-month-long disruption in distribution of cancer drugs to the critical patients in five designated centres across the province. As many as 5,000 blood cancer patients were registered under the CML programme to get four kinds of free-of-cost medicines from the centres set up at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Nishtar Hospital, Multan, Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Rawalpindi and Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. As per the programme, the CML patients have been…