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PESHAWAR, Oct 12: A local NGO run by psychiatrists has asked the government to regularize relief efforts in the quake-hit areas and demanded that a team of psychiatrists be sent to help recover people from mental trauma.
The chairman of the Health Promotion Welfare Society, psychiatrist Dr Mian Iftikhar Hussain, said relatives of thousands of dead and injured people needed support to brave the loss.
He appealed to all the psychiatrists of the country to come forward and offer their services in relief operation.
RELIEF WORK: The University of Peshawar on Wednesday dispatched a Rs2 million consignment to the affected areas of the NWFP.
The university sent three truckloads of 1,000 new blankets, food items, portable water and medicines to Abbottabad, Mansehra, Haripur Hazara.
The university had collected 400 blankets, 100 jackets, 1,000 burial shrouds, clothes and shoes in different camps.
Teachers and students participated in relief operations and installed camps in front of their departments for donations.
IRNUM organized a big camp where students donated blood to be sent to the affected areas.
The campus radio of the Journalism Department also established a donation camp near the Khyber Teaching Hospital and collected funds for the cause and announced the names of donors from the radio station.
ENGINEERING VARSITY: The University of Engineering and Technology, NWFP, has set up a relief cell on its Peshawar campus and launched a campaign to coordinate and facilitate relief efforts for the victims the earthquake. University employees have donated three-day salaries for the victims.
Vice-chancellor Syed Imtiaz Hussain Gilani, in an emergency session held with the faculty and staff on Wednesday, called for more relief efforts.
The university has formed two teams under the relief cell to work systematically and in coordination with government agencies.
A technical team, comprising experts and civil engineers, has been sent to Abbottabad to work with the government in evaluating the structural damages and collapse of buildings and hospitals in the city.
