Malaysia hand over refurbished health centre to Pakistan

May 30, 2013

MIRPUR KHAS (Sindh, Pakistan), May thirty A rural health centre really bad damaged during a 2011 floods was refurbished as well as reconstructed by Mercy Malaysia in partnership with a Malaysian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as handed over to a provincial government.

Malaysian Consul General to Karachi (Pakistan) Abu Bakar Mamat handed over a Tando Jan Muhammad Rural Health Centre to a Deputy Commissioner of Mirpur Khas, Asif Ikram, here, today.

Following a 2011 flood, Mercy Malaysia had set up charitable projects in Pakistan to alleviate a provinces dire situation which has influenced a livelihood of 9.27 million people who rest heavily on agricultural produce.

The Malaysian supervision had contributed USD1 million (RM3.2 million) for Mercy Malaysias charitable projects, including refurbishing a health centre as well as adding new wings, staff quarters, as well as rebuilt a H2O tank for a 40,000 residents in a area.

The plan was part of Mercy Malaysias Health as well as Wash (Water, Sanitation as well as Hygiene) initiative launched in 2012 in Sindh.

It additionally concerned a installation of 70 latrines, 10 H2O hand pumps as well as dual reverse osmosis H2O filtration plants as well as a non-governmental organisation additionally distributed 3,500 family hygiene kits to family groups influenced by a floods.

Mercy Malaysia Vice President Dr Mohamad Ikram Salleh told Bernama which a organisation will go on with its charitable efforts to help a people of Pakistan when needed.

It has been in Pakistan for charitable work since 2002, during a Afghanistan conflict where it manned field clinics as well as were here in 2005 after a south Middle East earthquake in Kashmir, he added. Bernama