KARACHI, July 9: Students of the Dow Medical College flocked to the bake sale organized by the Patients’ Welfare Association on Wednesday on the premises of the Civil Hospital Karachi.

DMC students sold all manner of eatables to other students and visitors haggling over prices. They also employed all tricks of persuasion to get window-shoppers to buy one thing or another so that they could raise more revenue than they had got last year, Rs710,000.

The bake sale was inaugurated by Dr Tipu Sultan, principal of the Dow Medical College and dean faculty of medicine, University of Karachi.

The PWA has been organizing the annual bake sale for the past 18 years.

As this reporter went round the hall, encircled by a bright marquee, in an anticlockwise direction he witnessed stalls displaying multifarious items, ranging from handicrafts to eatables.

A volunteer told Dawn that the amount earned by the PWA through the annual bake sale had been in the increasing order. “Every year we earn more than we earned the previous year. I have been told that this year, too, we will break our last year’s record.”

He added that students took a lot of interest in the bake sale. A large number of leading bakeries and eateries donated their foodstuff to the PWA which was sold by the students.

The PWA, a non-political non-governmental organization being run by the students of the Dow Medical College on the premises of the Civil Hospital Karachi, has been providing health-care services to deserving patients free of cost for the past 23 years.

The PWA was formed by three Dow Medical College students in 1979 with a single cabinet of medicines.