Hyderabad: Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences has decided to extend medical facilities to flood victims in different parts of the province immediately after Eid in collaboration with volunteers of Médecins Sans Frontières (doctors without borders).

Talking to journalists on Wednesday, the university's vice-chancellor Prof. Dr. Noshad A. Sheikh said that 10,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) were sheltering on the main campus land and in two school buildings as batches of IDPs continued to pour in from Dadu, Khaipur Nathan Shah, Johi and Thatta.

He said that summer vacation of all faculty members had been cancelled and they were asked to offer their services along with postgraduate students to the medical superintendent of Liaquat University Hospital to run medical camps.

The university was taking care of flood survivors at relief camps set up at the university's main gate, Karan Shoro village, Al-Hamra Kotri barrage and Aliabad off Indus Highway, he said.

A committee of senior faculty members and officials of the university had been formed to run these camps. A vice-chancellor's donation account had been set up to collect funds and donations for flood survivors, he said.

Several faculty members had donated their full month salary and total donations from faculty members, students and paramedics came to Rs2 million, he said. Dawn