46 truck load of relief goods dispatched by Social Welfare Dept

LAHORE – Punjab Social Welfare Department, philanthropists and non-govern­mental organisations (NGOs) dis­patched around 46 truckloads of re­lief goods for the flood victims here on Saturday. Provincial Minister for Social Welfare Ghazanfar Abbas Cheena supervised the relief opera­tion and donated 500 tents in the noble cause. Members of Punjab As­sembly Makhdoom Razzaq, Ghazan­far, Irfanullah Niazi, Secretary Social Welfare Waqas Ali Mehmood, DG So­cial Welfare Faiz Naeem Waraich, DG PDMA Hameed Malik, directors Irfan Gondal, Mubasher Javed, Muhammad Salman officers concerned and repre­sentatives of NGOs were present on the occasion. The social welfare department had also arranged medical camps for flood victims in the flood-affected areas, he said and added the depart­ment was also dispatching fodder for the animals. He lauded the efforts of the department teams, NGOs and phi­lanthropists of other cities including Rawalpindi, Vehari, Okara, Sargodha and Faisalabad for arranging relief aids for flood-stricken people.