NGO plans ‘Adopt a Community’ help
An NGO has come up with a proposal to ‘adopt a community’ in a bid to help a large number of flood survivors.
KARACHI:
An NGO has come up with a proposal to ‘adopt a community’ in a bid to help a large number of flood survivors.
On Thursday, the Omair Sana Welfare Foundation (OSF) held a press conference to announce its plans. One community will comprise 100 households and the foundation would spend Rs100,000, half on construction and half on the rehabilitation of each household or family, said Dr Tahir Shamsi, who is the OSF’s vice president. Donors can either adopt a community, village or a family.
The foundation mainly works with patients who suffer from blood disorders but in response to the floods has organised a full medical assistance campaign across neglected areas of Sindh. The general-secretary of the OSF Dr Saqib Ansari claims their team treats about 2,000 patients a day. Patients who visited their a medical mobile units, which have been in operation since the last 40 days, in Nowshera, Muzaffargarh, Kashmore, Sukkur and Thatta predominantly suffer skin diseases, about half of them have severe diarrhoea, twenty per cent were pregnant while many came with complaints of minor accidents.
The foundation is also setting up a field hospital in Sehwan, which they say has been majorly overlooked by health workers. The hospital, designed in ten square foot containers will offer special facilities for women and children, allow for proper sanitation and ventilation which is not possible to provide in tents and makeshift camps. Two containers will function as a delivery room and a small operation theatre with all basic facilities for minor surgical procedures.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2010.
An NGO has come up with a proposal to ‘adopt a community’ in a bid to help a large number of flood survivors.
On Thursday, the Omair Sana Welfare Foundation (OSF) held a press conference to announce its plans. One community will comprise 100 households and the foundation would spend Rs100,000, half on construction and half on the rehabilitation of each household or family, said Dr Tahir Shamsi, who is the OSF’s vice president. Donors can either adopt a community, village or a family.
The foundation mainly works with patients who suffer from blood disorders but in response to the floods has organised a full medical assistance campaign across neglected areas of Sindh. The general-secretary of the OSF Dr Saqib Ansari claims their team treats about 2,000 patients a day. Patients who visited their a medical mobile units, which have been in operation since the last 40 days, in Nowshera, Muzaffargarh, Kashmore, Sukkur and Thatta predominantly suffer skin diseases, about half of them have severe diarrhoea, twenty per cent were pregnant while many came with complaints of minor accidents.
The foundation is also setting up a field hospital in Sehwan, which they say has been majorly overlooked by health workers. The hospital, designed in ten square foot containers will offer special facilities for women and children, allow for proper sanitation and ventilation which is not possible to provide in tents and makeshift camps. Two containers will function as a delivery room and a small operation theatre with all basic facilities for minor surgical procedures.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2010.