Funds released for free treatment of deserving families

The administrator of the District Zakat Committee has released a sum of Rs13.07 million to hospitals in Rawalpindi for free medical treatment of deserving families in the entire district.

The initiative aims to provide healthcare facilities to the underprivileged segments of the society free of cost.

The free treatment of patients belonging to humble backgrounds in these hospitals includes kidney dialysis and eye surgery. The District Headquarters Hospital, Rawalpindi has received an amount of Rs7,357,852 for this purpose, while the dowry fund amount of Rs9,827,312 will be released on May 20.

The committee has requested applications for a marriage grant of Rs20,000 per person from deserving families.

More than Rs150 million will be released to families living below the poverty line representing 7,500 widows and divorced women, who will get Rs1200 per head. Furthermore, Rs9,974,722 will also be distributed among the beneficiaries.

A separate amount has been allocated for the treatment of patients living in villages of other tehsils. The tehsil headquarters hospitals of Kotli Sattian, Taxila, Gujar Khan, and Murree have received Rs963,600, Rs649,700, Rs1,786,675, and Rs1,786,675, respectively, for the treatment of poor patients.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 14^th, 2023.