LAHORE: Sarwar Foundation has announced the launch of a “Free Hepatitis Jail” campaign to rid the jails across Punjab, including Lahore, of hepatitis. Prison staff and officers will also be tested for hepatitis along with the prisoners and those suffering from hepatitis will be treated free of cost. Begum Perveen Sarwar will oversee all matters herself. Sarwar Foundation Chairperson Begum Perveen Sarwar while talking to media persons in her office on Monday said that we are working on the eradication of hepatitis from 2018. In this regard, besides Punjab, we also have free campus in Baluchistan and Azad Kashmir. So far we have screened more than 120,000 people and more than 70,000 people have been treated completely free of charge and we are working in urban as well as rural areas where free hepatitis camps are set up. Begum Perveen Sarwar said that unfortunately, the highest number of hepatitis patients in the world is more than 12 million in Pakistan and where 300 people are dying daily. It is time to eradicate hepatitis at the welfare level as well as at the government level by working on an emergency basis and the whole nation and all sectors together must make Pakistan completely free from hepatitis by 2030. We are also working for this mission all over the country including Punjab and when we all work together, success will be our destiny. Chairperson Sarwar Foundation Perveen Sarwar further said that we in collaboration with other government agencies including the Department of Prisons are now launching a program to rid Punjab Jails of hepatitis under which free hepatitis camps will be set up in jails across Punjab including Lahore and inshAllah we will be able to clean our prisons from hepatitis. There is no doubt that it is important to provide clean drinking water to the people to protect them from dangerous diseases like hepatitis for which Sarwar Foundation has become the largest welfare organization in Pakistan by providing clean drinking water to 2.2 million people daily across the country.