Ukrainian envoy calls on Aziz
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz praised the government and people of Ukraine for providing support in relief operations, while talking to Dr Ilhor Polikha, the Ukrainian ambassador, and Sergiy Guriev, the chief surgeon of Ukraine mobile hospital in Besham, who called on him at the Prime Minister’s House.
Prime Minister Aziz said that plans are being made for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the quake-affected areas. The prime minister said Pakistan is facing a huge challenge and the government is determined to change the adversity into an opportunity. Dr Ilhor Polikha told the prime minister that the volume of aid from Ukraine to the earthquake survivors is the largest assistance ever rendered by Ukraine to any foreign country.
He said that Ukraine has given aid worth more than US$3 million, while Ukrainian prominent businessmen via Pakistan’s Embassy in Ukraine had donated US$120,000. Ukrainian doctors have already given first aid and medical attention to more than 10,493 victims. Up to 460 people were hospitalised and 126 has surgery, while seven women gave birth to children at the Ukrainian hospital. Two Ukrainian aircraft landed in Pakistan carrying humanitarian aid including tents, more than 40,000 blankets, medicine, baby food and canned food of 250 tonnes. app
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