The Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS) Rawalpindi has registered 202 families with 998 persons in their relief camp while 136 families with 619 persons were discharged.
PRCS Rawalpindi Secretary Dr Muhammad Waseem Khan stated this while talking to reporters in the relief camp. He said that at present there did 66 families residing in the camp comprising 127 male, 120 female and 132 children. "We have set up the relief camp in a way to give them complete family atmosphere to bring them out of the trauma of earthquake. It is imperative to help them recover", he added.
He said separate compartments were set up for each family in order to provide them privacy in living. "There is no interference of anyone in personal life of the victims", he added. Dr Waseem said foodstuff provided to them was being prepared under the supervision of their own people.
Hygienic conditions were priority to keep the residing families healthy. "We have set up school in the camp with the help of affected teachers, who helped children to come in the routine", he added.
He praised the efforts of philanthropists of the area and organisations helping PRCS to run the camp in a better way.
"Nazim Union council Mian Imran Hayat, MNA Hanif Abbasi, Ijaz Khurshid of Jewellers Association are individuals who supported us wholeheartedly in running the camp, besides organisations like Satellite Friends Association, Kahuta Welfare and Saffa Mosque provided the clothes, food stuff and other commodities for victims", he added.
He said the families living in locality came to console the affected people and helped them recover.
Dr Waseem said there was no help or assistance and even appreciation from the government side so far; inversely an important personality in present government created problems for the people running the camp. "This personality has humiliated volunteer teacher of the camp who herself is victim and also humiliated a small kid who had saved other 22 children in Muzaffarabad", he said in an emotional manner.
All what they were providing to residing people was being provided by philanthropists and it would continue till the last person in the camp.
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