Pakistan has been performing solid organ transplantation, mostly kidney, for several years throughout the country and an active national transplant committee is in place. C2C was very glad and honoured to meet General Abdul Qadir Usmani, Human Organ Transplantation Authority in Pakistan, and had the opportunity to brief him on our project and its current status.

The Italian Embassy in Islamabad is greatly impressed by Cure2Children and its activities in Pakistan since the very beginning. C2C first met Simone De Santi, Deputy Head of the Italian Mission, more than a year ago and kept in touch with him since. Through him C2C was able to involve Dr .Vincenzo Prati, the Italian Ambassador in Pakistan.

At the National Institute of Childhood Health, a large government facility in Karachi, with a Bone Marrow Transplant Unit established several years ago but never functional due to limitations in professional and financial resources, C2C will collaborate with the local “Child Aid Association”

(http://www.childaidassociation.org/),   to start up transplant activity by March 2009.