KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party-led two successive provincial governments of Sindh did not allocate funds for its pledge in establishing Thalassaemia Treatment Centres. For last six years two projects could not be initiated. Sindh Health Department pledged establishing Thalassaemia Treatment Centres in various parts of the province. Thalassaemia is hereditary blood disorder that occurs due to inter-family marriage trend in Pakistan. An estimated more than 6,000 babies born with thalassaemia disease in Pakistan every year while 0.1 million children are living with this genetic blood disorder in the country. In 2015, then minister for health Sindh Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar announced establishing 28 Thalassaemia Treatment Centres across the province to provide diagnostic and treatment facilities to thalasaemiac children. In the similar context, in 2011 another provincial health minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed who was then lawmaker from PPP’s coalition partner Muttahida Quami Movement, announced a project establishing Thalassemia Centers in seven major hospitals of the province with a cost of Rs. 174.116 million. These centers were planned to be built at Civil Hospital Karachi, Lyari General Hospital, Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad, Civil Hospital Mirpurkhas, Peoples Medical College Hospital Nawabshah, Ghulam Muhammad Mehar College Sukkur and Chandka Medical College Hospital Larkana. There are no facilities available in Sindh’s major for thalassaemia patients in major hospitals of Karachi like Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC), Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) and National Institute of Child Health (NICH). In the absence of provincial government’s role, non-governmental organisations are carrying burden of thalassemia patients in Sindh. The provincial government had established a Thalassemia Day Care Centre, under a public-private partnership at Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK), run by Patients’ Welfare Association (PWA) in 2011. The Thalassaemia centres in Lyari General Hospital and Sindh Government Hospital Liaquatabad are still not operational.