Day 7 – Meetings from Dawn to Dusk in Lahore

We set off from Faisalabad at 8, an hour later than I planned. We jumped in the back of the posh car we had been given and sped off. We had meetings booked all day, from 10-30 with Professor Syed Sibit-u-Hasnain, President of the Hepatology Society in Pakistan, and Principal of the Allama Iqbal Medical School. At 2 we were to meet Dr Anwar, Director of the Sheikh Zed Hospital, the only hospital in Lahore with a Hepatology Department in Lahore. We were to catch up with the friend of a patient of mine from Huddersfield who has Hepatitis C. And at the end of the day we were to meet The Rotary Club to look at funding for the future of this project. What a day we had ahead.

Our first appointment was the one of the most important one of our trip, with Professor Syed Sibit-ul-Hasnain. I felt very privileged that he wanted to meet with me, and I most certainly did not want to be late – but by 9.30, with more than an hour to go, I couldn’t see how we could make it in time. But our driver broke the speed limit, we zoomed along the motorway, wove through the mad traffic in Lahore, took a few false turns, and then, just on time, we arrived at the Jinnah Hospital, and on to the Allama Iqbal Medical School.