PESHAWAR, March 21: The management of the Gandhara University will set up one-day free medical camps in various districts of the province to provide free health facilities to the poor at their doorsteps.
A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the university presided over by M. Roeed Kabir, Chancellor of the Gandhara University, here on Monday.
The first one-day free medical camp will be held at the Malam Welfare Centre, Kohat city, on on Tuesday, where doctors specilizing in different disciplines and dental surgeons would examine patients free of cost and also provide the patients free medicines.
Senior staff, technicians and about 30 students from the Kabir Medical College and Sardar Begum Dental Hospital would attend to patients from dawn to dusk.
Similarly, serious patients would be referred to the Gandhara University’s medical and dental hospitals in Peshawar. Heads of different departments will personally be available on the site to help staff and students.
The poor would get quality healthcare facilities free of cost. Serious patients would get free treatment at the Naseer Teaching Hospital and the Sardar Begum Dental College, Peshawar.—APP
