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OPD of Al-Khidmat hospital shifted to containers Lahore , Dec 19: The Jamaat-e-Islami's field hospital in Muzaffarabad run by Al-Khidmat and PIMA has shifted its out patient department to two large containers donated by JI Women Wing Karachi. According to Dr Riaz Shaikh, in-charge of the hospital, about eight hundred patients most of whom are women and children visited the OPD daily. Until now the OPD was set up in tents where serious problems were being faced by people due to cold, snowfall and rains. He expressed gratitude for Ms Nasira Ilyas, chairperson JI Women Wing Karachi, for this valuable donation. He said now eight doctors were serving patients at the OPD. He said a social service institution, Citizens Foundation, had also assured providing two large containers to the hospital which would be used as women and children wards. He said Al-Khidmat hospital being the largest field hospital at Muzaffarabad, had performed 7628 surgical operations while 33 children were born there so far. A total of 46279 patients had so far been treated at the hospital. |
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