Unfortunately, capital of Balochistan rarely has any burn unit . There is only one burn unit in the entire province which provides treatment facility to the burn patients. As soon as winter begins, there are many gas cylinder incidents in Quetta and and a large number of people suffer from burns.

Burn is a worldwide issue especially in a developing country like Pakistan, and continues to be a major challenge to the healthcare provider and society. Burn injuries in Low and Middle-income countries (LMICs) account for 90% of of entire world. Burn is the fourth leading cause of injury which is just behind injuries from road incidents , falling, and interpersonal violence. Addition, injuries from burn accounts for 5 – 12% of all injuries worldwide. Every year around 11 million patients required some kind of medical intervention. About 265,000 people die each year due to burn injuries according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Head of Department Dr. Manzoor Civil Hospital who got the unit of the Department of Plastic Surgeons in 1997, “he said that the government had proposed a burn unit for BMC. Initially, it was started with only three beds and later became 75 beds. In 2016, when there was an explosion in the lawyer’s court, the doctors faced a lot of difficulties due to the fact that there was only one burn unit in the whole province and the patients could not get first aid. and we told the government that instead of sending them to other cities, they should be treated in their own city. Under the conditions of that time, we needed strict security and for all these treatments, the government gave us only 25 lakh rupees, while going to another city could have increased the cost to 3 crores rupees, “he said.

In 2017, Secretary Health Noor ul Haq and Corps Commander said that you should come back and according to their vision, they had thought to build a burn center at the provincial level, “he said. He, health secretary, declares that he wanted to be a master trainer in district headquarters. This whole phase was decided by the Chief Minister and the Corps Commander, but it was delayed due to the government and now he got this responsibility in 2022.

The burn center will be staffed by trained burn-related doctors and will initially have 30 beds. These doctors will be trained best in this center and then they will be sent to different headquarters of the province so that these trained people will go there and provide HR there so that the workload in the province will also be reduced because patients from other areas of Balochistan also came here.

According to Dr. Manzoor, “Burns is a series of forms of trauma with grave consequences for the patient and Family, with high morbidity and mortality. Since the establishment of the burns ward at Bolan Medical College and Complex Hospital Quetta in 2002, we have been receiving and managing a great variety of patients with burns from Kerosene oil, Petrol, gas, fire, scalds, chemical, and Electric burns, Patients were received from Within (Balochistan and Sindh) and outside Afghanistan and Iran (Iranwi Balochistan) and as victims of the war on terror from the region, as a result, ongoing war. An audit of our patients received from 2004 to 2008 has been presented which Consists of patients out of which 58% were male and 42% were female, Major Pathogens isolated were staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and pseudo monas. Indicates of infection were high in patients with a longer stay and extensive burns out Come of admitting patients.

Training centers are being built so that a burn patient can be saved if he is in safe hands for the first five to six hours. Because for burn patients, the first step is to change the fluid and provide oxygen to the patient to relieve the pain and bring him to further recovery, if all these processes the patient will spend two to three days, he lies down and his kidneys were failing at first.

KILL THE PAIN BEFORE THE PAIN KILL YOU:  Due to the lack of basic medical facilities, the patients of Balochistan had to go out of the city to got treatment for burns and many patients even died from their injuries because the treatment was quite expensive. the Biggest advantage of this burn center will be that patients will be treated both in civil hospital as well as Balochistan Medical collage. There will be staff because 80 percent of our people are poor and if there is treatment in our district, money will be saved. Civil Hospital has a long-term plan for this unit in the initial stages and as soon as the recruitment process is completed the center will be started.