The government will establish a state-of-the-art medical centre in AJK city of Muzaffarabad to help rehabilitate 2005 earthquake victims with spinal cord injuries.
The centre is being planned to be completed in two years and will be a sort of institution for those who were disabled by the tragedy to train themselves in various vocational skills. Hundreds of thousands of people were thrown out of life's mainstream as they received spinal cord injuries in a 7.6-magnitude-earthquake that struck northern Pakistan and parts of AJK on October 8, 2005. An estimated 73,000 others lost their lives in the early morning tragedy.
The Standard Charter Bank of UK would provide finances for the project to be executed by the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (Erra).
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard was signed here on Sunday between the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences in Muzaffarabad and the Standard Charter Bank.
"The centre is an example of reconstruction and rehabilitation (of earthquake victims) being carried out successfully with donors' financial assistance," said Erra Chief Altaf Salim, who oversaw the MoU signing ceremony.
Altaf lauded the co-operation being extended by private partners to the Government and authority and pressed the need for a proactive participation of other organisations in the reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts.
The Erra chairman acknowledged the financial, technical and logistic assistance various donor agencies and sponsors had been extending for reconstruction ventures.
He cited the signing of MoU as a confidence being posed by the donor agencies in the way the government was carrying out the reconstruction activities.
The Standard Charter Bank representative assured all out help from his institution to supplement the rebuilding process especially in health sector.
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