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Canadians provide water and medical care
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (APP): Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Garhi Dupatta Thursday began distributing purified water to the thousands of displaced Kashmiris.
Three Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units (ROWPUs) will be located in Muzaffarabad as a water point where it will provide water to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for distribution to affected areas.
The small town 20 km South East of Muzaffarabad was the first to get operational for distribution to Kashmiri's in Muzaffarabad.
"The DART will produce 200,000 liters of purified water per day and we will do so for approximately 40 days until local authorities or NGOS are in a position to provide the same," said Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Voith, Commanding Officer of the DART.
A fourth ROWPU will support the primary care medical facility and the local inhabitants of Garhi Dupatta.
The DART also started providing primary medical care to the people affected by the earthquake at the clinic located in its camp from Wednesday.
An ambulance team and mobile medical teams are to visit remote locations to provide medical assistance in areas where medical care is not provided. Half of the DART's medical personnel deployed in Pakistan are female.
The DART is one part of the Canadian government's humanitarian aid effort to bring relief to the people of Pakistan affected by the earthquake.
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27 (APP): Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Garhi Dupatta Thursday began distributing purified water to the thousands of displaced Kashmiris.
Three Reverse Osmosis Water Purification Units (ROWPUs) will be located in Muzaffarabad as a water point where it will provide water to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for distribution to affected areas.
The small town 20 km South East of Muzaffarabad was the first to get operational for distribution to Kashmiri's in Muzaffarabad.
"The DART will produce 200,000 liters of purified water per day and we will do so for approximately 40 days until local authorities or NGOS are in a position to provide the same," said Lieutenant-Colonel Mike Voith, Commanding Officer of the DART.
A fourth ROWPU will support the primary care medical facility and the local inhabitants of Garhi Dupatta.
The DART also started providing primary medical care to the people affected by the earthquake at the clinic located in its camp from Wednesday.
An ambulance team and mobile medical teams are to visit remote locations to provide medical assistance in areas where medical care is not provided. Half of the DART's medical personnel deployed in Pakistan are female.
The DART is one part of the Canadian government's humanitarian aid effort to bring relief to the people of Pakistan affected by the earthquake.
