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Pakistan News & Features Services As a part of their ‘Safety from COVID-19 on self-help basis’ project, the Serving Hands Organization distributed equipment among doctors, nurses and paramedical staff in the emergencies of the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital and the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD), both government-run facilities, on May 8.  According to the details shared by the organizers, it was the seventh such camp to be held recently in which the safety equipment for medical practitioners was provided free of cost. The precautionary kits included face masks, gloves and sanitizers.  Paying tribute to the medical and nursing staff for their sacrifices and fortitude, the top officials of the Service Hands Organization hailed them as the frontline soldiers in the war against COVID-19 and pledged to continue playing their role in contributing their bit for serving the humanity.

By Abdul Qadir Qureshi (Pakistan News & Features Services) Around 20,000 people from different corners of the city, besides quite a few from other parts of the country, visited fourth edition of the HOPES Health Expo which was held at the Karachi Expo Centre on January 6.  Help of Patients in Exigency by Students (HOPES), a non-political patient welfare organization managed solely by the undergraduate medical and dental students of the Karachi Medical and Dental College (KMDC), lived upto the reputation of organizing the Health Expo successfully for the fourth time running. The smartly turned up KMDC students did the job passionately and enthusiastically to facilitate and satisfy the large number of visitors at the HOPES Health Expo, who were offered free consultation and awareness sessions on more than 20 medical and dental specialties. The trained volunteers from all over the city managed more than 20 types of free screenings which were made available...