SIALKOT, Nov 18: The Sialkot business community has established a 200-bed well-equipped hospital in Balakot for providing free of cost medical facilities to quake victims. Talking to reporters here on Friday, SCCI president Dr Nouman Idrees Butt and senior vice-president Faisal Mehmood Khan said that city’s all the trade bodies had donated relief goods amounting to Rs200 million for earthquake victims.
They said the business community was bearing all the expenditures for the treatment of dozens of seriously injured patients in local CMH and other government hospitals in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial, Pasrur, Shakargarh and Narowal.
The district government, they said, had so far dispatched 325 trucks of relief goods to the earthquake-stricken areas. While the local people and business community were donating generously at all the relief camps.
Besides, they said, the army had dispatched about 125 trucks of relief goods for the quake survivors. People were contributing generously to army relief camps at Shakargarh, Noor Kot, Phalora, Chawinda and Zafarwal.
IMPROPER MEASURES: Scores of earthquake survivors are living under the open sky in both Sialkot and Narowal districts because district governments have not made proper arrangements to cope with the increasing migration.
While dozens of families affected by earthquake have shifted to houses of their relatives in Sialkot, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Uggoki, Pasrur, Chawinda, Badiana, Shakargarh, Zafarwal, Noor Kot, Baddo Malhi, Narowal and their surrounding areas.
Meanwhile, several families from earthquake-devastated areas of Azad Jammu & Kashmir reached here on Friday while more were expected from Muzaffarabad, Balakot, Battagram, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Mansehra, Abbottabad and the other areas in the coming days.
