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    • Pakistan fifth-largest recipient of KSrelief after Yemen, Palestine, Syria and Somalia

    • 8500 people examined in Karachi and Shikarpur area of Sindh province during the campaign that ended recently

    KARACHI: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) recently completed voluntary medical campaigns in Pakistan to combat blindness and its associated diseases, according to Saudi Press Agency.

    During the two campaigns in Karachi, 4,000 medical examinations and 400 surgeries were performed, and 400 spectacles were distributed among the needy.

    In Shikarpur district of Sindh province, 4,500 medical examinations and 425 cataract surgeries were performed, and 650 spectacles were distributed.

    In December last year, KSrelief launched a $1.26 million winter relief project to help over 135,000 people in northwestern Pakistan.

    Relief packets, each containing quilts, shawls, socks and warmers, were distributed among families in Pakistan’s colder regions such Chitral, Swat and Shangla in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where winter is usually severe.

    KSRelief provides humanitarian and development support to millions of beneficiaries in more than 49 countries. Pakistan is the fifth-largest recipient, after Yemen, Palestine, Syria and Somalia, of assistance from the Saudi-based international agency and has received more than $120 million in aid since 2005.

    Meanwhile, KSrelief volunteers performed 116 surgeries and examined 675 cases in Nigeria.