Events
Function:
Al-Shifa Charity Function
Location: Karachi
Chief Guest: Governor
Sindh, Dr. Ishrat ul Ebad Khan
Purpose: To revive contacts and apprise
donors about the progress made by Al-Shifa
Trust Eye Hospitals
Entertainment Program:
By Hadiqa Kiyani, Faakhir, Ali Haider
Date: April 14, 2007
Time: 7:00 pm
Workshops
Pakistan Muslim League (PML) President
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain has stressed the
need for promoting private-sector welfare
organisations so that people could benefit
from their services.
He was speaking at a workshop and photo
exhibition organised by the Al-Shifa Trust
Eye hospital here on Friday.
The PML chief asked the Pakistan Television
to present one programme each month to highlight
the welfare activities of such organisations.
He said the Ministry of Information would
also hold media workshops on quarterly basis
to encourage people to come forward and
extend their support for the cause of social
welfare.
Referring to the services rendered by Al-Shifa
Trust President Lt-Gen(retired) Jahan dad
Khan, he said: "He is a man of inborn
qualities who left his foot prints wherever
he served."
Minister for Information and Broadcasting
Mohammad Ali Durrani said media persons
should promote welfare activities to give
inspiration to the public.
PML Secretary-General Mushahid Hussain
Syed said Al-Shifa Trust was a non-profit
and non-policitical organisation committed
to providing eye care and treatement mainly
to the poor.
Lt-Gen (retired Jahan Dad Khan said the
trust had set up three eye hospitals in
Rawalpindi, Sukkur and Kohat, while arrangements
were being made to set up two more in Quetta
and Muzaffarabad.
Later, the distinguished guests took a
round of the photo gallery.
Higlights
of Community Programme held at Kohat
KOHAT, Feb 19: The Al-Shifa International
Eye Trust Hospital begun providing spectacles
and other facilities free of cost to needy
people here on Monday.
The administrator of the Al Shifa Hospital,
Kohat, said on Monday that 15,000 patients
had been treated in the hospital in less
than a year.
He said President Pervez Musharaf had provided
land free of cost and approved sufficient
funds for the construction of Al-Shifa Hospital
in Muzaffarabad and work on another hospital
in Quetta would begin soon.
He said efforts were under way to appoint
more qualified doctors and nurses in the
hospital here.
"People belonging to the four nearby
tribal agencies, Afghanistan, Attock and
upper Punjab still do not know about the
free treatment facility,” he said.
He said the trust had decided to set up
camps from wherever it received a call in
the country and in Afghanistan. |
