KARACHI, Nov 23: A UK-based Muslim charity on Thursday announced it would focus on the city’s backward Gadap Town in improving healthcare facilities for its people.

Officials of the London-based Muslim Aid, a charity aiming to undertake welfare works worldwide, held a press conference at the Karachi Press Club.

On the occasion, the officials of the charity said that they were targeting Gadap Town as a geographical focused area for their upcoming programme in the thematic area of health.

“Our programme would assure provide basic health facilities to the far-flung and scattered villages of the Gadap Town where vast population of the area does not even know how to narrate and deal for their daily requirements,” said Syed Tanzeem Wasti, secretary-general of the Muslim Aid UK.

The secretary-general said that the idea to provide basic health facilities to these people, especially in emergency cases, was established after a survey of community area, available facilities to these people, governmental initiatives and basic needs of the people.

“Health, water and sanitation situation is worse in these areas so it is expected that seasonal and related diseases may cause serious casualties for the poor and low-income people due to non-availability of clean drinking water and other necessities,” the secretary-general of the Muslim Aid said.

Mr Wasti said that the immediate need for the affected people was to provide health care facilities for the needy people, especially women and children of the area.

“It is tough job which cannot be completed without the participation of the community members; so we intend to establish such health unit with the participation of the local community.”

He said their charity was engaged to serve the under-privileged strata of the society without any bias and discrimination to provide emergency relief.