Emergency aid: Red Crescent Society to open response cells

SIALKOT:

Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Chairman Dr Saeed Elahi on Tuesday said the organisation would set up response cells 100 cities of the country.

He said the project would be launched from Sialkot.

“The purpose of these response cells would be to provide emergency aid,” he said.

He was addressing a meeting at the Sialkot Chamber of Commerce.

Saeed said he had negotiated with the federal government to introduce a chapter of PRCS in the syllabus of all educational institutions.

He said humanitarian organisation had provided food, drinking water and health facilities to more than 8,000 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bannu.

He said the disaster management committee of Sialkot Chamber of Commerce would be linked to the response cell of the PRCS.

He said both would work closely to provide quick relief to the people.

PRCS General Secretary Brig Dr Mehboob Sardar spoke on the the function, history, role, challenges and working structure of the organisation.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 27^th, 2014.