127 Saudi doctors arrive to help
A team of Saudi Arabian doctors and paramedics arrived in Karachi to help with relief efforts in Sindh.
KARACHI:
A team of Saudi Arabian doctors and paramedics arrived in Karachi on Thursday to help with relief efforts in Sindh. The team of 127 doctors and paramedics will join a field hospital in Thatta, which has been built by Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi ambassador, Abdul Aziz al Ghadeer, said while talking to the media at the Hajj terminal, Karachi airport, that Saudi Arabia is taking part in all aspects of flood relief in order to help Pakistan at this time of need.
He also said that he visited Hyderabad and Thatta, where his 51-member delegation distributed dates and milk to flood survivors in relief camps alongside roads. The new team has brought the number of Saudi doctors to 149, who are working in two field hospitals in Sindh.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2010.
A team of Saudi Arabian doctors and paramedics arrived in Karachi on Thursday to help with relief efforts in Sindh. The team of 127 doctors and paramedics will join a field hospital in Thatta, which has been built by Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi ambassador, Abdul Aziz al Ghadeer, said while talking to the media at the Hajj terminal, Karachi airport, that Saudi Arabia is taking part in all aspects of flood relief in order to help Pakistan at this time of need.
He also said that he visited Hyderabad and Thatta, where his 51-member delegation distributed dates and milk to flood survivors in relief camps alongside roads. The new team has brought the number of Saudi doctors to 149, who are working in two field hospitals in Sindh.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 3rd, 2010.