Army actively working for rehabilitation

HYDERABAD: The armed forced in collaboration with philanthropists and well to do persons are actively participating in rehabilitation of millions of people of Sindh province who were displaced during unprecedented flood in 2010.

The unprecedented flood, which witnessed by the people of Sindh after four or five decades, had played havoc in many districts of the province situated at the right bank of the Indus river.

The gushing flood forced the millions of people to shift in the relief camps by leaving their ancestral villages, towns and cities.

During evacuation from inundated areas, the Pakistan Army and Navy utilized their maximum possible resources and rescued the marooned persons through helicopters, hovercraft and boats.

The continuous monitoring and supervision of the rescue and relief work including provision of medical facility in the relief camps by Army and Navy medical teams save many precious lives during the natural disaster.

After rescue and relief operation, the Armed Forces have also beenengaged in rehabilitation of the flood displaced people with the cooperation of non-governmental organisations, philanthropists and well to do persons.

The Pakistan Navy Women Association also taken this noble cause with full enthusiasm by not only providing relief goods to affected people, but also started construction of a model village near Aliabad in Jamshoro district.

The Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir who handed over the keys of newly constructed houses to affected people of the areas few days back eulogized the role of PNWA and other philanthropists who extended full cooperation to Navy for rehabilitation of flood displaced people of the province.

The newly constructed houses of Pakistan Navy Women Association Model Village Mocho Goth, which handed over to flood hit families are fully furnished and equipped with all basic amenities including drinking water, sanitation, gas supply and electricity besides school, mosque and dispensary.

He said that Pakistan Navy had the experience of rescue, relief and rehabilitation in cyclone hit cities and villages of Makran Coast, therefore, it has not faced any difficulty while receiving the task during flood in Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa, Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Under Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), he said that Hovercrafts and Boats were utilized for rescue of flood hit people, who were later provided relief and rehabilitation with the help of philanthropists.

He said that no government or non-governmental organization or otherinstitution alone can be able to carry out rescue, relief and rehabilitation work for disasters' victims as it could not be overcome through combined efforts of all.