Saving Lives: NGOs to launch free health clinics

Medecins Sans Frontieres was providing medical care facilities to the flood victims.

BADIN: The Sindh health department along with national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), has decided to set up free health care facilities for flood affected people in lower Sindh. A representative of the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) P K Lee said that the MSF was providing medical care facilities to the people in Badin, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Mirpurkhas and Tharparkar. She added that the MSF was an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivered emergency aid to people in more than 60 countries affected by armed conflict, epidemics, and natural or man-made disaster. The MSF representative said that a team comprising eight foreign and 13 Pakistani doctors were working in different union councils in Badin. “The MSF medical teams are providing free medical cover and medicines to over 150 patients per day,” she said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 25^th, 2011.