Keep it clean: ‘Project Jinnah’ cleans up city’s largest hospital
More than 300 volunteers join hands with the city administration to uplift JPMC
KARACHI:
The city's largest hospital is no longer a home to stray dogs roaming around the wards, fountains filled with stagnant water and paan stains adorning the corridors.
Armed with paintbrushes, broomsticks and dustpans, more than 300 volunteers from different universities have taken the initiative to clean up Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), disposing of garbage, medical waste and sewage as well as painting over political slogans and replacing them with inspirational and motivational messages.
Leading 'Project Jinnah', Go Green PK and Sehar Welfare Society joined hands with the city administration to uplift the hospital, which provides treatment to over 5,000 patients from all over the province every day.
"After a three-year-long struggle to get the JPMC administration's support, the volunteers were finally able to get the city commissioner on their side," Go Green PK president Faysal Soomro told The Express Tribune.
Observing the volunteers, Karachi commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui lauded their efforts. "This team is made up of the future leaders of the country," he said.
"It is a citizen's duty to do more than just complain and point at faults," said Mukee Murtaza, a former Institute of Business Management student and an active Go Green PK member.
Talking about their future plans, he said that Go Green PK was working with different hospitals to conduct more cleaning campaigns.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2014.
The city's largest hospital is no longer a home to stray dogs roaming around the wards, fountains filled with stagnant water and paan stains adorning the corridors.
Armed with paintbrushes, broomsticks and dustpans, more than 300 volunteers from different universities have taken the initiative to clean up Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), disposing of garbage, medical waste and sewage as well as painting over political slogans and replacing them with inspirational and motivational messages.
Leading 'Project Jinnah', Go Green PK and Sehar Welfare Society joined hands with the city administration to uplift the hospital, which provides treatment to over 5,000 patients from all over the province every day.
"After a three-year-long struggle to get the JPMC administration's support, the volunteers were finally able to get the city commissioner on their side," Go Green PK president Faysal Soomro told The Express Tribune.
Observing the volunteers, Karachi commissioner Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui lauded their efforts. "This team is made up of the future leaders of the country," he said.
"It is a citizen's duty to do more than just complain and point at faults," said Mukee Murtaza, a former Institute of Business Management student and an active Go Green PK member.
Talking about their future plans, he said that Go Green PK was working with different hospitals to conduct more cleaning campaigns.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 15th, 2014.