Zubair Qureshi
A special plane of Pakistan International Airline (PIA) carrying 2 million tons of medical equipment from China arrived, said Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
It was the second plane in two days from China and landed in Islamabad on Saturday. The supplies include 132,000 masks, 15 breathing machines, 11,000 protection clothing sets, 200 forehead thermometers, and 21,000 detection kits.
According to details, a couple of days back, the Sichuan liaison office of the China-Pakistan Business Council handed over a batch of anti-epidemic materials to Chinese iron brother—Pakistan, through the consulate-general of Pakistan in Chengdu.
The plane brought the much-desired relief goods for the Pakistani authorities and it will be useful in treatment of the coronavirus patients.
An official said the council had collected donations from enterprises and individuals, who were eager to help Pakistan in its hour of need.
Acting consul-general Mahmood Akhtar of the Pakistani consulate in Chengdu expressed sincere thanks for this, saying that “we can see real friends coming forward in difficult times.”
After the outbreak of the new epidemic in China, Pakistan actively raised money in the absence of medical supplies and donated urgently needed epidemic prevention supplies to China.
On February 20th, the Chinese President Xi Jinping and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, stressed that China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic partners, praised Pakistan for the first time for China to express support and arrange the precious material donations, said China always put Pakistan foreign priority, call made China-Pakistan relations a model to promote the construction of a community of human destiny.
Sichuan liaison office of the China-Pakistan business council actively serves the friendship between China and Pakistan, and has received donations of urgently needed medical supplies from enterprises and individuals in Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou and other parts of the country.