FerriScan : Non-invasive measurement of liver iron concentration

Hello all

Attention all UK and Germany residents
Please be informed that FerriScan is now available at Whittington Hospital in UK and Hannover Medical School in Germany as a routine clinical service.

Whittington Hospital (UK)
Magdala Avenue,
London,
N19 5NF
Tel: +44 020 7272 3070


Hannover Medical School
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Diagnostic Radiology 
Carl - Neuberg - Strasse 1 Hannover
30625 Europe
Tel: +49 511 532 3421

Please speak with your physicians should you want to have a FerriScan done.

I'm from Perth too. My son is going to have his MRI scan in August for the first time at Princess Margaret Hospital. Will there be a FerriScan component in there?

Hooi

Dear Hooi

Welcome!

Yes, FerriScan is available at the Princess Margaret Hospital. Has the doctor provided a referral for your son to have a FerriScan? Please speak to the managing doctor if your son hasn't had a referral. I hope everything works out well for your boy.

Let me know if you need any further details. 

I am waiting for the day when there will be an announcement that ferriscan is available in Pakistan.

ZAINI.

Hi Zaini

I am working with Sajid and his foundation (Jamilah Sultana Foundation) with regards to setting up FerriScan. From my last contact with Sajid, he said that the person in charge is now reviewing the financial aspect of the service. I hope so too that I could put up an announcement for Parkistan soon.

I will keep you inform once there are any new updates.

I want it to happen it too, but I have to sadly announce that even after convincing the project manager; it's not going to be available for/from J.S.F as the owners(financiers) are not contented with the cost.

 

Miss Sylvia,

Can you contact other MRI operators or hospitals with MRI facility in Pakistan to introduce it here?

miss Sylvia :
try to to convince ur side to establish a setup here in pakistan ..

Thanks Sylvia,

For your efforts.

ZAINI.

Hi miss Sylvia :
i m sending u the adress and contact no's of pakistan some well knowned hospital ....
try to agree them to interduce "FerriScan : Non-invasive measurement of liver iron concentration"  in pakistan ... i hope at least one of them could make it possible ...

Lahore Office

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre

Johar Town
Lahore 54000
Pakistan

Tel:  +92 42 5945100
Fax: +92 42 5945208
UAN: 111-155-555
Toll Free Number: 0800-11555
Email: marketing@skm.org.pk

Islamabad Office

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust
2 Royal Center
106-West,
Fazl-e-Haq Road
Blue Area
Islamabad
Pakistan

Tel:  +92 51 2273400
Fax: +92 51 2274049
Email: skmt@isb.comsats.net.pk


Karachi Office

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Trust
Suite# 10, Mezzanine Floor
Hamilton Courts, G-II
Near Teen Talwar
Main Clifton Road, Clifton
Karachi
Pakistan

Tel: +92 21 5872573
        +92 21 5370573
Fax: +92 21 5872574
Email: skmt@khi.comsats.net.pk

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AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Karachi
Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500,
Karachi 74800,
Pakistan.
Tel: 92 21 493 0051
Fax: 92 21 493 4294, 493 2095
Email: akuh@aku.edu, public.affairs@aku.edu

HAEMOTOLOGY/ONCOLOGY SECTION
Department of Medicine,
Link Building,
Aga Khan University Hospital,
Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500,
Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
Tel: 92 21 493 0051 Ext. 1567, 486 1567
Fax: 92 21 493 4294, 493 2095
Email: oncology@aku.edu

LABORATORY
Aga Khan University,
Stadium Road, P.O. Box 3500,
Karachi 74800, Pakistan.
Tel: 92 21 493 0051 Ext. 1552/3, 486 1552, 486 1553
Fax: 92 21 493 4294, 493 2095
Email: laboratory@aku.edu
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keep informin to the latest developments ................

Hi nice friend

miss Sylvia :
try to to convince ur side to establish a setup here in pakistan ..

Thanks for sharing the information. I would like to clarify one thing about FerriScan setup. We would like to see every MRI sites to be setup with FerriScan, including Pakistan, however, there are always obstacles (eg: technical, funding issues) that prevent FerriScan from being available. It is not within our control if the MRI center cannot meet our basic setup requirement. We always try our best to work with the centers when initialising FerriScan setup.

Sajid has explained why his foundation is unable to offer the FerriScan service.  We now need to approach other Pakistani centers who are treating thalassemic patients. The list of centers that you have provided is very useful. Do you have any contact details to the hematologists from these centers? It would be much easier to contact a person than to send an email to a general address. We get spams so often now that by sending a generic email (without attentioning to a specific doctor), it would be regarded as spam mail and be deleted without reading.

It would be great if anyone of you have contact details to your hematologists and from there I can get in touch with them to provide more details on FerriScan. Any contact details to your thalassemia societies or foundation would be very useful too.

Hi Sylvia,

Unfortunately i don't have contact details of any heamotologists in Aga khan hospital but i know there names,Dr Khursheed is head of heamotology there,and Dr Salman Naseem Adil is head of oncology,and Dr Zehra Faddoo is in peads heamotology.

I'll try to find some contact info.

ZAINI.

Dr Mohammad Khurshid (Presidents Award for Pride of Performance) 
Consultant Haematologist and Oncologist    486 4415, 493 0051 - Ext. 4415 
Full-Time Faculty mohammad.khurshid@aku.edu 

 
Position   Dean Medical College, Aga Khan University; Professor 
 
Department   Department of Medicine; Department of Pathology and Microbiology; 
Section   Haematology - Oncology Section; 
Main Speciality   Haematology and Oncology; 
Clinical Specialities   Haematology; oncology   
Qualifications   MBBS (Karachi); D. Path (UK); FRC Path., Haematology (UK); FISH (London).   

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Dr Salman Naseem Adil 
Consultant Haematologist and Oncologist    486 1840, 493 0051 - Ext. 1840, 1841, 1525 
Full-Time Faculty salman.adil@aku.edu 

 
Position   Associate Professor and Head of Haematology and Oncology Section   
 
Department   Department of Medicine; Department of Pathology and Microbiology; 
Section   Haematology - Oncology Section; 
Main Speciality   Haematology and Oncology; 
Clinical Specialities   Haematology   
Qualifications   MBBS (Karachi); FCPS (Pakistan)
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Dr Zehra Fadoo 
Consultant Paediatrician    486 1840, 493 0051 - Ext. 1840 
Full-Time Faculty zehra.fadoo@aku.edu
 
Position   Assistant Professor   
 
Department   Department of Paediatrics and Child Health; 
Main Speciality   Paediatric Haematology; 
Clinical Specialities   Paediatric haematology; oncology   
Qualifications   MBBS (AKU); Diplomate, American Board of Paediatrics (USA); FAAP (USA); Fellowship in Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (USA).

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i will try to send u more ...

Great job Umair .

ZAINI.

Hello umair!

Thanks for the contact details. I will get working on them.....Hopefully, we will see a reply from them soon.

Once again, great job and many thanks!

Sylvia

Hi miss Sylvia :
i m sending u the adress and contact no's of pakistan some well knowned hospital ....
try to agree them to bring ur firm's innovative in pakistan ... i hope at least one of them could make it possible ...

Lahore Office

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre

Hi umair,

I had a look at the Shaukat Khanum hospital website and I found a haematologist whom might be relevant for me to contact. Do you have the contact (email) details to Dr M. Kamran Siddique? http://www.shaukatkhanum.org.pk/html/ms_kamransiddique.html

It would be great if you could find out for me. For your info, I have already sent an email to the 3 haematologists provided in your earlier posting. I will update you if I were to hear back from them.

Thanks.

Sylvia