Together we can: University students can help govt in relief efforts

LAHORE: University students could be asked to volunteer in rehabilitation efforts and conducting surveys, Finance Secretary Jehanzeb Khan told participants at a meeting on Tuesday. He was addressing a three-member delegation of the World Health Organisation.

Health DG Dr Zahid Pervaiz said the Health Department had asked the WHO to provide emergency health kits, diarrhoea kits, water purification tablets, anti-snake venom, anti-rabies vaccine, primaquine tablets to treat malaria and rapid diagnostic kits to aid early diagnosis. The finance secretary urged the WHO to gather international and local NGOs on one platform for a rehabilitation campaign. Participants agreed to these proposals and decided to evolve a strategy to involve university students in the government’s rehabilitation activities.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 17^th, 2014.