Health camp benefits locals

By Our Correspondent,Changu Narayan, Bhaktapur, Feb. 23: Nepal- Pakistan Friendship and Cultural Association (NPFCA) conducted its 20th free medical camp at Shree Krishna Secondary School, Kharipati, Bhaktapur On Saturday.

Doctors, who graduated from Pakistan, offered their services to patients including senior citizens, poor women and the disabled.

Speaking at a function, Pakistani ambassador to Nepal Abrar H. Hashmi said that the medical camp epitomsied the deep friendship between Nepal and Pakistan. He said that the locals would benefit from the camp.

Mayor of Changu Narayan Municipality Jeevan Khatri said that the medical camp was an appropriate initiative to boost Nepal-Pakistn relations at the people-to-people level. 

NPFCA chairman Dr. Manju Ratna Sakya said that his organisation had been organising medical camps annually targeting the people who were unable to afford quality health services.

The principal of Shree Krishna Secondary School Arun Chaudhary urged the NPFCA to conduct constructive activities in the municipality to uplift the people from the marginal groups.

On the occasion, Ambassador Hashmi handed over sports materials, including a camera on behalf of the Association to principal Chaudhary. More than 300 people with diabetes, blood pressure, orthopedic and gynecological complications, among others, visited the camp where medicines, masks and sanitisers were distributed to the patients free of cost.