First Step in Pakistan to Stop TB*
IT ALL started on a hot suffocating afternoon in the first week of August 1951. And, amazingly, it started in the T.B. Ward of Lahore’s Mayo Hospital. About a dozen T.B. patients – with not much hope to survive the white Scourge, as was the case in those days – decided to celebrate the Independence Day in their ward.
Dr. Riaz Ali Shah Medical Officer of the T.B. Ward and eminent social workers was greatly impressed with the spirit of these patients. He not only helped and guided them but also made a generous monetary contribution was a great success. It was widely acclaimed, and the T.B. Ward was adjudged to be the fifth best decorated place in the city of Lahore.
