LAHORE, May 19 The Punjab government on Tuesday directed the health department to send 40 mobile medical teams to the internally displaced persons (IDPs).According to a press release issued here, the teams will reach Mardan on Wednesday. The mobile teams consist of men and women doctors and paramedics. Health director-general Dr Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry would accompany the teams.

JINNAH HOSPITAL Doctors, nurses, paramedical and other staff members of Jinnah Hospital pledged on Tuesday to donate their one-day salary to the Punjab government's relief fund for IDPs.

Presiding over a meeting of the staff members, medical superintendent Dr Omar Farooq Baloch said he was happy to know the way medical staff had extended help for the rehabilitation of their brethren in the troubled areas.

UHS University of Health Sciences (UHS) vice-chancellor Malik Husain Mubashar bade farewell to two mobile health teams which left here on Tuesday for Malakand and Dir. The teams consisted of 16 men and women doctors and nurses.

The vice-chancellor said it was a goodwill gesture for the people of Swat and Malakand. “The way doctors, especially women, showed their willingness to voluntarily work in the medical camps reaffirms my conviction that we still feel for each other,” the vice-chancellor added.