KARACHI: Relief efforts for quake victims continue
KARACHI, Oct 21: The Sui Southern Gas Company has dispatched a team of doctors and nursing staff to Azad Kashmir, headed by Chief Medical Officer Dr Shehla Naqvi. The SSGC contingent will join a medical camp established by the National Rural Support Programme at Suddan Gali, Bagh.
The team, comprising of Dr Munawar Hayat Ahmed, Dr Asghar Naqvi and Shahbaz Ahmed, is fully equipped with necessary first-aid and surgical items and also carrying a supply of essential drugs.
SIEMENS: The Siemens Pakistan has donated a 150KVA diesel generating unit and a mobile X-ray unit for the earthquake affected areas.
The documents of the equipment were handed over by the Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Pakistan, Sohail Wajahat, to Sindh Transport Minister Adil Siddiqui at a simple ceremony on Friday afternoon.
The equipment would be deployed in the areas without electricity.
Sohail Wajahat said that three similar generators were being manufactured to be donated by the Siemens for the earthquake affected areas. Some more medical equipment would also be donated by the company, he added.
HU: Hamdard University has so far delivered medicine and food items of over Rs2 million to the quake-hit areas in northern parts of the country, while the faculty members and employees have also donated their one-day salary, amounting to Rs0.5 million to President’s Relief Fund.
The university has also set up a base camp at Mansehra since Oct 10, where its 22 doctors and about 300 paramedical staff, students and volunteers are engaged in providing medical treatment and help the affected people. The medical teams included surgeons, physicians, anaesthetist and paediatric. —APP/PPI
Our reporter adds: Airblue has lifted over 200,000kg relief goods free of charge for the earthquake victims so far.
This was stated on Friday by the airline’s commercial director Nasir Ali at an Iftar-dinner.
He said that most of the goods consisted mainly of medicines, medical equipments, coffin cloth, food, blankets and tents from Karachi and Dubai.
Mr Ali said that Airblue had so far transported over 200 doctors, volunteers and technicians from Pakistan Red Crescent Society, Karachi Medical and Dental College, Zindigi Trust and JPMC.
KARACHI, Oct 21: The Sui Southern Gas Company has dispatched a team of doctors and nursing staff to Azad Kashmir, headed by Chief Medical Officer Dr Shehla Naqvi. The SSGC contingent will join a medical camp established by the National Rural Support Programme at Suddan Gali, Bagh.
