LAHORE, Oct 23: All university students affected by the quake can get admission to public sector universities in Punjab. Governor Khalid Maqbool made the offer while speaking at TV programme here on Sunday. The Punjab government will provide them a chance to complete their education.
He said so far Punjab had dispatched 5,000 trucks of relief goods, 1.2 million quilts and 40,000 blankets to the affected areas. This was in addition to the heavy machinery for removal of debris. It had also established two “langar khanas” at Muzaffarabad and Balakot where thousands of people were being served meal, he said.
He said employees of municipal corporations had also been sent to these areas to perform civil functions. Patients from the affected areas were also being transported to all big cities where C-130 planes could land.
District nazim Mian Amer, who also participated in the talk, said Lahorites were ready to adopt one city in the quake-hit area and reconstruct it.
Meanwhile, the Services Hospital on Sunday received 215 quake victims.
According to the medical superintendent, most of them were admitted to orthopaedics ward and were being operated upon. All patients, he said, would be provided with free treatment and meal besides fare to return to their native places. The same facilities would be available to their relatives.
He said the hospital had spared 500 beds for the quake victims, and was ready to receive more in the next few days.
Meanwhile, the government shifted nine more patients with a backbone problem to the General Hospital.
According to the LGH medical superintendent, the hospital had spared 200 beds for the injured and could spare more if needed. So far, some 95 victims were admitted to the hospital, out of whom 41 were still under treatment.
The hospital is also extending the patients free treatment and meals.
TENT VILLAGE: The Edhi Foundation has established a tent village at Bara Kaho on Islamabad-Murree Road. Around 3,000 people have been accommodated in 300 tents.
The ambulance service of the foundation has also removed 1,350 victims to different hospitals of the area.
ARMY: The army relief camp set up at the Fortress Stadium has sent 450 truckloads of relief goods and Rs5.2 million in cash contributed by the general public. This was stated by camp supervisor Lt-Col Umar Farooq here on Sunday.
He said about 150 tons of relief items, including food, blankets, quilts, warm clothing, medicines and tents, had so far been distributed among the calamity-hit populace by the army relief camp.
He appealed to the masses to donate more tents and blankets besides cash.