LAHORE, Oct 28: The City District Government Lahore will set up a tent city near the field hospital set up by it in Mansehra in collaboration with the Pakistan Medical Association to provide residence to the patients after treatment.

Nazim Mian Amer Mahmood gave an assurance to this effect during a meeting with a delegation of the Pakistan Medical Association led by its president Prof Imtiaz Rasool at Jinnah Hall here on Friday. EDO (health) Dr Abdul Qayyum was also present.

Appreciating the services being rendered by the doctors and paramedical staff at the hospital, the Nazim said the CDG would not only continue meeting the requirements of food and medicine but also dispatch 200 tents and beds for establishing the proposed tent city. Crutches would also be supplied for the disabled persons.

The nazim was told that the hospital had been set up at a place where people from Balakot, Batgram and Patahal could be brought easily. It had facilities similar to a teaching hospital and had provided treatment to nearly 5,000 patients during the past four days. Specialists were available round-the-clock and the patients were being provided food and ambulance as well.

He was told that 120 doctors working at the hospital had undertaken 700 minor and more than 250 major operations with the cooperation of Mansehra District Headquarters Hospital. Doctors were also visiting the seriously sick patients at their houses.

The Society for Rehabilitation of Disabled was also assisting in treatment of patients.