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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.
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