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Malaysian NGO Seeks to Raise One Million Ringgit for Pakistan Helath Facilitators
MALAYSIAN
NGO SEEKS TO RAISE ONE MILLION RINGGIT FOR PAKISTAN HEALTH FACILITIES
KUALA
LUMPUR, Sept 13 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- The Malaysian Medical Relief Society (Mercy
Malaysia) is seeking to raise 1.0 million Ringgit (one USD = about 3.11
Ringgit) in funds to help reconstruct health facilities totally damaged in
Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years, says its president, Dr Ahmad Faizal
Perdaus.
Mercy Malaysia, a voluntary and non-profit organization focusing on relief
efforts and sustainable health-related development for vulnerable communities,
hopes to utilise the money also to provide emergency medical relief to flood
victims in the southern
part of that country.
Dr Ahmad Faizal said in a statement here Sunday that more mobile and static
clinics were also needed to help alleviate the suffering of the people as
medical attention was
widely needed.
The floods have forced more than four million people from their homes and
killed at least 1,600. Three Mercy Malaysia teams are now manning two static
clinics in the Nowshera and Charsadda districts, and have attended to more than
6,000 patients.
"The number will rise as more people are displaced by the floods, with increasing
cases of conjunctivitis, dehydration, diarrhoea and skin infection now being
reported," said Dr Ahmad Faizal.
Individuals and organisations who wish to help the flood victims can channel
their contributions via bank-in or transfer of funds to a Maybank account
(5621-7950-4126) or through a CIMB Bank account (1424-000-6561053) in the name
of "Pakistan Relief Fund" or send cheques made out to "Pakistan
Relief Fund".
Mercy Malaysia can be contacted at 03-2273 3999 or by logging on to the
website, www.mercy.org.my. -- NNN-BERNAMA
MERCY Malaysia continued its partnership with The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN Refugee Agency, and ran 11 mobile clinics in Klang to offer primary healthcare to the stateless as well as marginalized communities.
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