KARACHI: BMU plans for the poor

Published March 31, 2003

KARACHI, March 30: The Baqai Medical University and the Baqai Foundation with the objective of providing better education and health-care facilities to the underprivileged segment of society have planned a welfare programme titled BMU Vision-2015, which envisages establishment of 600 centres in all impoverished areas of the country.

This was stated by the chancellor of the university, Dr Fariduddin Baqai, on the second day of a national conference at Khushhal Nagar, Gharo, on Sunday.

He said that each project would cover 100,000 people where primary education and medical facilities and technical training would be imparted free of cost to the deserving people.—PPI

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