PIMA donates ambulance for sunami-hit people to RCI



Lahore, Jan 17: Pakistan Islamic Medical Association (PIMA) has donated a state-of-the-art fully equipped ambulance to Red Crescent Indonesia (RCI) to ensure provision of timely healthcare to Tsunami-hit people of Aceh, says a message received from Jakarta.
Head of PIMA relief mission Dr. Mohammad Iqbal handed over keys of Ambulance to RCI delegate in a press conference held at Jakarta on Monday.
The PIMA relief mission is comprised of Dr. Anas Farhan Qazi son of Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Dr. Iqbal Kundi, Dr. Nadeem, IT expert Imtiaz Ahmed and host of other senior physicians and para-medical staff.
The PIMA mission arrived in Aceh a week ago for providing healthcare to Tsunami-hit Indonesians besides exploring possibilities of board-based and long term medical relief operation in collaboration with host of local NGOs.
During the on-going relief mission, PIMA delegation signed two separate memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with RCI and KKIA (Indonesian Humanitarian Association for Aceh) for long term relief operation in Tsunami hit areas of Indonesia.
Meanwhile, the message said, epidemics have been detected and the destroyed medical infrastructure is slowly being rebuilt in Banda Aceh, people are starting to die from diseases such as pneumonia, skin infections and tetanus. In reply to a SOS message by PIMA relief in Indonesia, loads of anti-tetanus vaccines is being dispatched to Aceh from Pakistan. (#)