Turkish Humanitarian Assistance in Pakistan

[KediKesenFare3]

Republic Of Turkey
Prime Ministry
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency



Turkey donates hospital to ailing Pakistanis

All the promises are
fulfilled by TİKA

During his visit to Pakistan following
the disastrous floods in 2010, Turkish
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
promised the construction of a new
hospital for Punjab. Accordingly, the
works were started to build a new
hospital in Muzaffargarh district.
The project was undertaken by TİKA in
cooperation with the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Spouses Solidarity
Association and the construction was
completed in 2012. With all medical
equipment and other furnishing
provided by TİKA, the hospital was
inaugurated in 2014.

Cutting-edge hospital in the region

Commissioned as the most modern
hospital in the region, it was named
and registered as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
Hospital by Punjab Ministry of Health.
The hospital is the most comprehensive
health facility in the region with two
operating rooms with electronic access
control, one morgue unit and a laundry
unit, situated on a land of larger than
one acre including its yard. Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan Hospital has already
made Muzaffargarh an attraction site in
the region.

26 doctors and 70 nursing staff in
total provide services at the hospital.
Ortopedics, surgery, gynaeecology
and pediatrics are operative presently
present and blood bank and intensive
care unit are to operationalise soon.
Hospital started to render service with
50 bed capacity at the end of June,
2014; thanks to contributions of TİKA
total bed amount reached to 90.
Total number of patients registered to
hospital on daily basis is between 350
and 500.​

 

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One school and one dormitory to each province​

During his visit to Pakistan following the disastrous floods in 2010, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promised the construction of nine educational facilities comprising one school and one dormitory for each province. Accordingly TİKA completed the first project of the entire package in Basira locality of Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province. Registered as Basira Emine Erdoğan Daanish Care Girls School by Punjab Ministry of Education, the facility has a school building of 32 classrooms to serve 200 students and a dormitory of 200-bed capacity.

All educational equipment, materials and furnishing were provided by TİKA for the school and the dormitory. Situated on a sizable land of four acres, Emine Erdoğan Danish Care Girls School is a school exclusively for the girls that operates as a full-time high school in the Danish Schools system where poor students in Punjab receive education. 425 girls are educated in nursery, primary sections and 6th grade in the school at the moment time. There are 20 teachers on duty and it is targeted that 7th and 8th grades are opened and number of students are increased to 900 in the following school year. Due to the malicious attack to the school in Peshawar, public authorities stipulated new security precautions. Therefore, the dormitory is not operative at present but when the necessary precautions are implemented, the dorm will be opened.

Fully-equipped neonatal unit by TİKA

TİKA CONTINUES ITS
DEVELOPMENT AID
ACTIVITIES IN THE
FIELD OF HEALTH IN
BROTHER COUNTRY
PAKISTAN​

TİKA continues its development aid activities in the field of health in brother country Pakistan. A neonatal unit was established by TİKA in the Okara District Hospital in Punjab- the most populous province in Pakistan. The hospital is the one with the highest capacity in Okara district and provides services to nearly 3 million people in Pakistan having very high infant mortality rates.
Because of the lack of a neonatal unit in the Okara Distrcit Hospital and as per the request from hospital management TIKA immadiately answered and refurbished a room allocated by the hospital to be a neonatal unity, installed a oxygen central piping and granted the necessary medical equipment -in total 42 items- for the care of the
newborn. Thanks to the establishment of neonatal unit by TIKA, it is expected that almost 300 newborn babies will
benejit from the unit per mensem, and aimed that the newborn will go through this delicate period without picking up illnesses.
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Thank you Turkey.