Tuberculosis Control Efforts in Pakistan – Speeches and Appeals Addressed to Fatima Jinnah

Sub title : Inaugural Address at Anti‑Tuberculosis Conference, Requests for Messages, and Proposals for Film‑Based Public Education

Subject: Fatima Jinnah | Tuberculosis | Public health | Pakistan National Tuberculosis Association | Anti‑tuberculosis conference

Date of publication: 1947

Language: English

Page: 55 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28942

Keyword: Fatima Jinnah -- Tuberculosis -- Anti‑Tuberculosis Conference -- Lahore 1947 | Gulab Devi Hospital -- Pakistan National Tuberculosis Association | Public health -- Health films -- Aziz H. Abbasi -- Lyallpur

Abstract: Fatima Jinnah’s inaugural speech at Pakistan’s first Anti‑Tuberculosis Conference (Lahore, Nov 12, 1947) highlights staggering mortality (two lakh deaths annually), the need for graded programmes, and the importance of public understanding of infection. Later documents include a letter from the District Tuberculosis Association, Lyallpur (1966) requesting a goodwill message; a complaint from a New Zealand‑returned psychopathologist (1949) offering free services for T.B. and other diseases; and a proposal to use educational films to combat tuberculosis.

Description: Fatima Jinnah’s speech at the inaugural Anti‑Tuberculosis Conference (Lahore, November 12, 1947), where she stresses that tuberculosis spreads only from infected persons, not from poverty or heredity, and calls for coordinated action. A 1966 letter from the Provincial Tuberculosis Association (Lyallpur) asks her to send a message for the 10th Annual General Conference. A 1949 letter from psychopathologist Aziz H. Abbasi (Quetta) complains about provincialism and lack of recognition despite offering free T.B. treatment with a claimed 70% cure rate. Finally, S. H. Lennox (Karachi) writes to her as President of the Pakistan National Tuberculosis Association, advocating the use of British health films and cinema vans for public education. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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