Battling pollution: Services Hospital work with WWF-Pakistan as past of Earth Day

50,000 trees to reduce environment degradation.


Our Correspondent April 18, 2013
As many as 500 seedlings were planted at the Nishter Hospital on Thursday to celebrate the Earth Day. PHOTO: FILE

LAHORE:


Services Hospital has joined hands with World Wildlife Fund Pakistan to plant over 50,000 trees as part of an Earth Day campaign. 


In a ceremony held at the hospital on Tuesday, Hamid Mahmood Butt, the Services Institute of Medical Sciences principal, said, “We are participating in this activity to address the heavy industrialisation in our city centres and the growing urbanisation.”

He said, “These factors impact the environment and we wish to secure the environment for future generations.”

The senior physicians and doctors who took part in the plantation also expressed their concern for the degrading environment. They said environment was directly related to human health, and the plantation drive was ‘a good initiative’ to highlight this fact.

Rehana Malik, the Services Hospital medical superintendent too, planted saplings. She was accompanied by Dr Abdul Mannan Qureshi, the Head of Urology Department, Dr Aamir Mirza, the Additional AMS and Dr Capt Muhammad Zafar, the Additional MS for administration.

The event was jointly coordinated and organised by WWF – Pakistan and Pharm-Evo.

Plantation drive

Multan. As many as 500 seedlings were planted at the Nishter Hospital on Thursday to celebrate the Earth Day.

The seedlings were planted with the cooperation of the World-Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature. Speaking on the occasion, WWF Regional Coordinator Inamur Rahman said they were planting 50,000 saplings countrywide.

accPublished in The Express Tribune, April 19th, 2013. 

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