Medical camp at Badshahi mosque

Minister inaugurates health camp

LAHORE:

Caretaker Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Aneeq Ahmed inaugurated a health camp at Badshahi Masjid here on Sunday, and stressed the need for collective efforts to establish a healthy society.

Addressing the inaugural ceremony and a seminar on ‘Role of mosques, mimber and mehrab for healthy society’, the minister maintained that there were more than 250,000 mosques in the country, which should be made a centre of medical and other facilities. He added that these mosques should be given the status of community centres.

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Aneeq said the medical camp had been established at historic Badshahi Masjid and other mosques of big cities like Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad in which dentists, ultrasound, sugar screening and other facilities are being provided free of cost to people.

He observed that the scope of these facilities and camps would be extended to other areas of the country soon.

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