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COLOMBO: Pakistan has sent modern field medical equipment with a team of doctors and relief materials for the flood-affected people of Sri Lanka, the Pakistan Embassy said in a statement on Sunday.
The country is battling a crisis created by unprecedented landslides which saw at least three villages in the hill-ridden Kegalle district eroded and floods in north-eastern parts of Colombo which have left hundreds stranded.
The statement said the relief assistance included a state-of-the-art 30-bed field hospital which is equipped with operation theatres, X-Ray systems and labs as well as variety of relief items, including medicine, electricity generators, tarpaulins and tents.
Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2016
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May 23, 2016 10:40am
Nice effort towards humanity! Pak-Srilankan relations should be strengthen by all means!
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May 23, 2016 11:31am
Good work, Pakistan! Such acts will surely repair the nations image
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May 23, 2016 11:36am
Dear Govt. we have people dying due to lack of food and water in Thar and other places too.
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May 23, 2016 11:39am
Where is this equipment when we need it in Pakistan ? usually people are suffering for weeks before any help arrives and usually its only the Army who will help
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May 23, 2016 12:30pm
@SR, Our religion teach us the Neighbours first then your own families.
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May 23, 2016 12:41pm
Plz send some equipment to PM Sharif also. Otherwise he's going to London for check up every 3 weeks causing loss of millions..
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May 23, 2016 01:21pm
Charity begins in the home and where do our people get this when they need it first? Does India do such charity overseas when its needed at home first?
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May 23, 2016 01:39pm
Whilst it's a good humanitarian gesture, but as the saying goes " charity begins at home" We have a dismal health provision for our people that's why PM and other people go to foreign land for treatment. Patients in Pakistan lay on hospital floors, no electricity etc and we continue to beg for AID from US & other western countries. So wheres the logic?
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May 23, 2016 05:25pm
We need to encircle India , like China is doing hence this effort by Pakistan to please SL.
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May 23, 2016 08:55pm
@Kamal Pasha.
"Our religion says help neighbor first then own family"
What happen in case of closest neighbour who speek similar and also share similar culture??
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May 24, 2016 01:27pm
@Zak encircling India....seriously??
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