Turkish aid agency in Pakistan

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Turkish aid agency sets up medical facility in Pakistan​

ISTANBUL TURKEY
JAN 27, 2021 2:46 PM GMT+3

Turkish and Pakistani officials tour the newly opened facility in Karachi, Pakistan, Jan. 26, 2021. (AA PHOTO)


Extending the country's support for its close ally Pakistan, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has set up a medical facility for surgeries of children born with a cleft lip and palate in Pakistan. The health condition affects one in every 523 children born in the country, according to a 2019 study.

The specialized operation theater has been set up at Al Mustafa Medical Center, a charity hospital run by a local nongovernmental organization (NGO), in the southern port city of Karachi.

TIKA coordinator Ibrahim Katırcı, founder of the charity Haji Muhammad Hanif Tayyab and provincial Governor Imran Ismail inaugurated the facility. The facility, according to a statement from TIKA, will perform up to 1,000 surgeries annually. Addressing the inauguration ceremony for the facility, Ismail thanked TIKA and the Turkish government for setting up the state-of-the-art facility for needy children. The Pakistan-Turkey friendship, he noted, is exemplary and will keep on flourishing in the days to come. Katırcı, in his remarks, said the establishment of the medical facility is aimed at giving the children born with a cleft lip and palate a chance to live a normal life.

Tayyab also thanked TIKA and the Turkish government for their contribution to "this noble cause."

The agency, active in Pakistan with various projects from humanitarian aid to access to clean water, recently established an ultrasound facility at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center Karachi, the city's largest public hospital, with five color dopplers. The facility provides free of cost service to up to 6,000 patients a month. Pakistan's first-ever high dependency unit for Thalassemia patients has also been established by the Turkish aid agency in Karachi.

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TIKA sets up sports facilities for impaired children in Pakistan​

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KARACHI TURKEY
OCT 14, 2021 12:37 PM GMT+3

The inaguration ceremony of TIKA's cricket and football training facilities for children in Karachi, Oct.13, 2021. (AA Photo)


Turkey's state-run aid agency on Wednesday launched cricket and football training facilities for children with special needs in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi with the participation of the Pakistani president.

The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) set up cricket training pitches and football stadium especially designed for hearing and visually impaired children at Ida Rieu School for Blind and Deaf, Karachi.

The school is one of the largest educational facilities for children with special needs in Pakistan with an enrollment of over 800 students.

TIKA has also upgraded the digital technology to help provide better study opportunities at the 100-year-old school located in the heart of Karachi.

Addressing the inauguration ceremony, Pakistan's President Arif Alvi thanked Ankara for setting up the sports facilities for children with special needs, who are an "inseparable" part of any society.

Calling for incorporating people with special needs into the society, Alvi said: "We must help them to feel normal because they are as normal as every one of us."
He further thanked Ankara for lending its support to Islamabad in every trying time.

Highlighting the importance of sports among youth, Turkish Consul General in Karachi Tolga Uçak hoped that the sports facilities set up by TIKA will support talent and pave the way for mainstream sports for children with special needs.

The decadeslong friendship between Pakistan and Turkey, he noted, has gained more strength with every passing day.

TIKA's Karachi Coordinator Ibrahim Katirci said the aid agency has established a number of projects for Pakistani youth in recent years, ranging from libraries to vocational training centers and music classrooms.

TIKA has already actualized a number of educational and sports projects across Pakistan, mainly in the less-developed areas of Sindh and Balochistan provinces.

TIKA sets up sports facilities for impaired children in Pakistan

Turkey's state-run aid agency on Wednesday launched cricket and football training facilities for children with special needs in Pakistan’s southern...

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