Midland Doctors Peshawar team have been doing a marvellous job in helping to sort out logistics for reconstruction of a village in North Pakistan. I have been coordinating with our Midland Doctors Peshawar team to facilitate The rehabilitation of the village. A village near Nowshehra was selected because of it’s accessibility and the fact is that the majority of the 300 houses in that village have been affected in one way or the other.
I asked the my team to carry out a survey of the effected houses along with the details of family heads and photos of houses. Midland Doctors has experience of construction through our hospital project in Muzaffarabad. Feed back from the village indicates that people are desperate for boundary walls, and bathrooms/ toilets. This stems from strict Purdah for women in KPK and local population would appreciate if we did our work with these sensitivities in mind.
We are working closely with the khidmah group in Derby to fund this thus allowing Derby to partner with this village. We will also hold medical camps regularly in this village and surrounding areas. We have employed a full time male doctor and are in the process of employing a female doctor. We hope to run our medical camps for next three months. Winter is approaching fast and these areas become very cold in winter. We have commissioned 1000 winter sleeping packages. These would be ready for distribution from next week.
Once the construction work gets underway we will carry out further surveys to identify other needs for this village to get the life back to normal including supply of clean drinking water through either tube well or hand pump. Dr Iftikhar similarly is coordinating the Midland Doctors effort in the south of Pakistan and will report in the near future. Thanks to Dr Nohaid Ilyas for volunteering his valuable time for updating the website where you can read more about our projects.
