ISLAMABAD, (MILLAT/APP): The Government of Japan provides
assistance worth US$ 83,230 to Al Mustafa Trust for the provision of
better health facilities to the disadvantaged communities in
Rawalpindi
The Government of Japan has extended the grant for installing
new medical equipment at its medical center in Chaklala, Rawalpindi
to better serve the underprivileged communities in surrounding
areas.
The Government of Japan has extended this grant under its
Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP)
Programme to implement the social development project for the
betterment of the disadvantaged communities of Pakistan.
The agreement for the project was signed on Tuesday at the Al
Mustafa Trust’s head office in Rawalpindi, between Charg‚ d Affaires
ad Interim of Japan to Pakistan, Junya Matsuura and chairman of the
trust Lt Gen (R) Muhammad Mustafa Khan.
The grant provided by the Government of Japan will assist in
the installation of new digital X-ray machine and up-gradation of
physiotherapy equipment to the one of Al Mustafa Trust’s medical
centers located in Chaklala, Rawalpindi.
The project is expected to assist Al Mustafa Trust in
addressing the health needs of local underprivileged communities’
with a better quality and easily accessible facility.
Al Mustafa Trust was established in 1998 with a mission to
provide primary health care facilities to the marginalized and needy
members of its surrounding communities; and at nominal rates to
those who can afford to pay. The Trust now has 23 medical
facilities, mostly in rural areas of the country.
Junya Matsuura, at the signing ceremony, stressed the
importance of work of Al Mustafa Trust in providing reliable and
affordable medical facilities, he wished for successful
implementation of the project by expressing that this project would
improve the general welfare of people in the area, and doing so
would undoubtedly strengthen the existing friendly relations between
the people of Japan and Pakistan.
So far, during the current Japanese Fiscal Year (April 2016 –
March 2017), Government of Japan has provided financial assistance
of worth US $ 500,362 to 6 Pakistani NGOs under the GGP program,
which includes a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project; and more
projects for this year are in pipeline to get assistance from
Government of Japan.