QUETTA: The Frontier Corps Balochistan Scouts organised a daylong free medical camp in the Manikhwa area of Loralai on Monday and treated around 1,085 patients suffering from various diseases.

According to an FC spokesperson, the paramilitary force’s doctors examined the patients, including women and children, at the camp and provided them medicines free of cost.

Besides providing the facility of laboratory tests, some minor surgeries were also performed. Anti-polio drops were also administered to children at the camp set up on the directive of Inspector General of Balochistan FC Maj Gen Fayyaz Hussain Shah.

Commandant of FC Zhob Militia Colonel Tahir Bashir visited the medical camp to review provision of healthcare facilities to the patients and also met them. He later distributed rations among the underprivileged.

Published in Dawn, May 21st, 2019

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