PIMA sends medical team to South Punjab

KARACHI: Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) has sent a second medical team to South Punjab to provide medical assistance to flood affectees. 

Prof. Dr Hafiz Ijaz Ahmed's team will arrange medical camps in Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur. Previously, a twenty-member medical team offered medical services in southern Punjab. In flood-affected areas, medical camps and mobile units have treated more than 18,000 people thus far.

In a statement released Friday, a PIMA spokesperson stated that volunteer doctors provide medical services in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Baluchistan, and Sindh. 

At 30 locations, 88 medical camps, including gynaecological camps for women, have been established, with 118 male and female doctors and 133 paramedics providing care.

These camps were held in many towns, including Quetta, Pashin, Jhal Magsi, Turbat, Chagai, Jacobabad, Shikarpur, Sukkur, Mirpur Khas, Rajanpur, Khairpur, Dera Ghazi Khan, Swat, Taunsa, and Charsadda. More than 18,638 people have received free treatment and medications at these camps.