President Al-Shifa Trust, Major General (Retd) Rehmat Khan has said that the Trust was committed to extend its reach into the nation’s outlying regions to combat the rising prevalence of eye diseases, many of which lead to irreversible blindness.
During a media briefing here on Monday, he said that in the past year, the Trust has set up 500 camps in remote areas of the nation, a thirty per cent rise over the same period the year before.
Major General (Retd) Rehmat Khan said there had been 400 general eye screening camps, 40 school screening camps, and 55 surgical eye camps all over Pakistan during the outgoing year.
The primary sponsors of these camps included Qatar Charity, OGDCL, PPL, AFNA, and the Pakistan Army, while the Rupani Foundation has also funded two eye camps, he added.
The President Al-Shifa Trust said that the trust was conducting the largest outreach programme in the country, reaching out to the far-flung regions of Gawadar and Pasni as well as the impoverished districts of Gilgit-Baltistan.
