MUZAFFARABAD, Sept 26: Al Habib Foundation Pakistan is playing a vital role in providing health, education and accommodation facilities to people in the quake-hit areas of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.

Talking to journalists here on Monday, Col (retd) Mohammed Yousaf Jan, Project Manager of Habib Foundation’s Azad Kashmir Camp, said that free treatment was being provided to patients in the hospital established in Muzaffarabad.

He said more than 200 patients were being checked up at the hospital every day, and the facilities of ultrasound and x-ray were being provided free of cost.

He said a modern complex and 15 quake-proof houses were being constructed in Muzaffarabad.

Mr Jan said under the aegis of Huba Foundation, a shelter house ‘Aashiana, had been setup in Attock for orphans and widows.

He said that land over 200 kanals had been acquired in Haripur for the establishment of a university. Besides, two middle schools and a mosque had been constructed in Hatian Bala and Gari Dupatta, he added.

He informed that engineers from Turkey had completed a survey for the construction of all future projects, work on which would start very soon.—Online