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The facility, according to a statement from TIKA, will perform up to 1,000 surgeries annually.<\/p>\nTurkey’s state-run aid agency has set up a medical facility for surgeries of children born with cleft lip and palate in\u00a0Pakistan.<\/p>\n
The specialised operation theater has been set up at Al Mustafa Medical Center – a charity hospital run by a local NGO – in the southern port city of\u00a0Karachi.<\/p>\n
Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency’s (TIKA) coordinator Ibrahim Katirci, founder of the charity Haji Muhammad Hanif Tayyab and provincial Governor Imran Ismail inaugurated the facility.<\/p>\n
The facility, according to a statement from TIKA, will perform up to 1,000 surgeries annually.<\/p>\n
Addressing the ceremony on Tuesday, Ismail thanked TIKA and the Turkish government for setting up the state-of-the-art facility for needy children.<\/p>\n
Pakistan-Turkey friendship, he noted, is exemplary and will keep on flourishing in the days to come.<\/p>\n
Katirci, in his remarks, said the establishment of the medical facility is aimed at enabling the children born with cleft lip and palate a chance to live a normal life.<\/p>\n
Tayyab also thanked TIKA and the Turkish government for their contribution to “this noble cause.”<\/p>\n
TIKA recently established an ultrasound facility at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center Karachi, the city’s largest public hospital, with five color dopplers.<\/p>\n
The facility provides free of cost service to up to 6,000 patients a month.<\/p>\n
Pakistan\u2019s first-ever high dependency unit for Thalassemia patients has also been established by the Turkish aid agency in Karachi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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