HOPE, a vital provider of health and education to the rural, poor masses since 1997 – and a very important and prompt provider of relief during natural calamities such as floods, earthquakes, storms and even the aftermath of terrorist attacks has responded immediately to the floods since 2010, providing food and safe drinking water to the most vulnerable groups, particularly women and children. Over the past five years, we’ve reached over 700,000 people.
On this particular occasion, the earthquake in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, particularly the Swat valley, the areas of Shangla Birkot and Puran in Shangla – the areas most devasted by the recent earthquake in Swat, KPK. After taking an NOC from the DCO’s office, HOPE, an educational and health related NGO in Pakistan supported P&G, Metro Stores & Human Concer International set up two relief and medical camps – one in Birkot and one in Puran extending a very timely help to the earthquake victims of the area.flood affectees of Sindh. The area selected was the flooded delta region of river Indus, a place known as Allah Baksh Brohi .
The area was surveyed in advance and by some good fortune a fully erected building became available to HOPE which was a great help in setting up this much needed medical and relief camp for the earthquake affectees – who were advised in advance of the dates and places of their setting up.
A very large number of men, women and children flocked to these camps and as many as 600 patients were treated and free medicines distributed. Four doctors participated in this medical camp and they had their hands completely full all day through. So also the dispensary which remained just as busy in giving out the medicines.
Some of the old and aged ones, in dire need of medical help, also managed to make it to the camps.
Besides medical help the camps provided free warm clothing, blankets, dried milk water, coolers and P&G’s purifier of water sachets. Demonstrations for the proper use of P&G’s purifier of water was provided so that clean drinking water could be made available to all displaced families – the one major reason for the spread of bacterial and viral diseases in the affected areas.
As always particular attention was given by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi, in the selection of the areas in need of such an activities and everything was closely monitored by Dr Mubina Agboatwalla, child specialist in Karachi in the formation of the whole team inclusive of the doctors and also in ensuring that all necessary medicines needed for this medical camp to ensure that nothing short of very good medical treatment was provided to the earthquake affectees.
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