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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Bureau report
PESHAWAR: Provincial head of the Falah-e-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) has said that the organisation had provided food to about 275,000 internally displaced persons.
Talking to ‘The News’ here Saturday, Atiqur Rahman Chohan said that they started providing food to the IDPs since May 2 and till May 15 they had provided food to hundreds of thousands of people. He said that the foundation had established three cooking stations — one each in Katlang, Shergarh and Rustam.
Chohan said that 50-60 cauldrons of cooked rice were being distributed in Katlang while 25-30 cauldrons each in Shergarh and Rustam were being cooked for IDPs on daily basis. He added that parcels of cooked rice were distributed in Jalala, Sheikh Shahzad and Sheikh Yaseen camps.
He added that the foundation contacted the Mardan district coordination officer to identify the areas for provision of food assistance who asked them to focus attention on IDPs accommodated in schools. “We immediately started distributing cooked rice to the displaced persons in schools besides we provided them medical assistance to them,” he said.
Chohan further said that the foundation had also established four medical camps, which have so far examined 150,000 patients and provided them with the medicines.
“Our 25 ambulances are also in the field which provide 24-hour medical assistance to the patients in the camps,” he said and claimed that25,000 male and female volunteers of the FIF were working day and night to provide relief to the IDPs.
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