Dear Brother/Sister,

Activities regarding flood
Pakistan faced the worst monsoon-related floods of its history in 2010. Large parts of the country were devastated by unusually heavy rainfall, caused rivers to overflow their banks and flash floods in low-lying areas. According to the UN, the floods had affected 20 million people, ravaged at least 62,000 square miles of land, wiped out 5 million acres of crops, damaged or destroyed almost 1.9 million homes, and left at least 10 million people without shelter. Water levels have now subsided or stabilized in most of the country. The most urgent problems were included lack of clean drinking water, food, shelter and the threat of widespread disease outbreaks.

POBs Response

• We distributed 500 dry food packs (including butter, rice, milk, tea, sugar, pulses etc costing RS.300,000) weighing 10 Kg each in the areas of Kot Mithan, fazil pur, Distt Rajan Pur, Muzafar Garh, Kot Addu,Nowshera ,Peshawar and Charsadda.
• 
  Distributed 19780 Eye Drops (Costing RS.593,400) through 25  National & International humanitarian Organizations in different Flood areas.
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  Distributed General Medicine costing rupees 400,000 in Fazil Pur, Kot Mithan , Dera Ghazi Khan, Muzaffar Garh and Nowshera.
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  Organized two free eye camps in Dera Gazi  Khan and Fazil pur district Rajan pur. Where 5368 (2488 Male & 2889 Femele) patients were given eye treatment. while 555 (263 Male & 292 Female) cataract surgeries were performed with Intra ocular lens implantation. (Costing RS. 16,065,000)

Hence a total amount of RS. 2,961,400.00 was used.

Sincerely,
Dr Intzar Hussain Butt
Chairman
POB Trust

Dr Muhammad Zahid Latif
Secratory General
POB Trust

Tel: 92-42-3613 0603
Web: http://pobtrust.org

Assalamu  Alaikum.

At the moment I am visiting Nigeria with the team of FIMA save vision where we have planned to conduct 4 free eye camps and we intend to perform 2 thousands eye surgeries. So far we have concluded with the initial 2 camps and started the other 2 camps today and have performed 1100+ surgeries . In this visit, 8 ophthalmologists and 2 OT assistants from Pakistan have been joined by 2 ophthalmologists from Jordan and one each from Palestine and Saudi Arabia.

At each camp, the local hosts have been very co-operative. We had good meetings with IBB (past-president of Nigeria), M Ali Indome (Opposition leader in the National Assembly of Nigeria) and  good interactions with local and international print and electronic media.

Alhamdulillah, FIMA is now well known among public and stake holders in Nigeria through our campaigns of prevention of blindness, daily social and daawa activity among patients and their attendants  and meetings with different officials, media and other  personalities.

It is my 5th visit to Nigeria and on every visit have tried to contact the central office of IMAN (Islamic Medical Assocation of Nigeria) but have not succeeded although every time we had meetings with local chapters.  During this visit I was able to contact the central president of IMAN and establish effective communication with him although he was on a visit to South Africa and we had a very fruitful meeting with central office bearer after he returned from South Africa. They showed a lot of commitment to join FIMA and are eager to work in collaboration with FIMA.

IMAN is a 20 years old organisation with over 10 thousands members who are doctors, pharmacists and nurses. They are working along the same line as other IMAs. I have informally invited them to the forthcoming FIMA council meeting in Lebanon and they are very much interested to be there. They will be holding their annual conference in the last days of July 2010 at OGUN state near LAGOS and they will be more than happy if some one from FIMA could attend this meeting and can provide a good start to bring closer IMAN and FIMA. I will mail you attachments about IMAN and their annual conference.

It is my humble suggestion to the FIMA leadership to have good communications with IMAN as I hope IMAN will be one of the active IMAs of FIMA and they can be helpful to establish more IMAs in the surrounding countries. About 3 years ago we discovered IMA in Chad  and informed FIMA but it is not still part of FIMA. In my opinion there are many countries where with small efforts more IMAs can be established.

May Allah accept our humble efforts . Ameen

Dr Intzar Hussain

FIMA Save Vision, Assistant Director

Currently in Maiduguri (NIGERIA)

POB  Trust is going to arrange five free eye care Camps in Nigeria from 11th  july to 21st july 2010. Around 30,000 patients will be examined & treated. During these Camps more than 2000 Patients will be operated for the contaract along with intra ocular lens implantation.

Moreover, volunteer’s team of eight ophthalmologists & two paramedics will leave for Nigeria during first week of July. Members are as follow:
Dr. Kanwar Usman Saeed (Sargodha)
Dr. Riaz Ahmed (Lahore)
Dr. Abid Butt (Lahore)
Dr. Tahir Farooq (Lahore)
Dr. Ghulam H. Asif (Vehari)
Dr. Iftikhar (Harripur)
Dr. Arshad Asim (Gojra)
Dr. Ashal Paul (Lahore)

Free Eye Camps are arranged in collaboration with IMA (Islamic Medical Association) Nigeria

Dr Intazar Hussain Butt
Chairman POB Trust

Dr Muhammad Zahid Latif
General Secretary POB Trust