Prime Minister Imran Khan has launched an initiative for overseas Pakistani health professionals.
Taking to Twitter, the prime minister wrote that Pakistani health professionals are on the frontline in the fight against coronavirus across the world.
Pakistani health professionals are on the frontline in the fight against #COVID19 across the world. They also want to help us combat COVID19 in Pak. We have launched @YaranWatan iniitiative for our overseas health professionals who can now register to volunteer their services. pic.twitter.com/O0MkyDMNDs
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 25, 2020
The prime minister added that the government has launched an initiative ‘Yaran-e-Watan’ for our overseas health professionals who want to help in the war against Covid-19 in Pakistan.
the programme is a collaborative venture of the Ministry of National Health Services and the Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development.
The “Yaran-e-Watan” platform has been operationalised with support from the International Migration Organisation, the World Health Organisation, and the National Information Board of Technology, the publication said.
Earlier this month, prime minister’s special assistants on Overseas Pakistanis and Youth Affairs, Zulfi Bukhari and Usman Dar, had agreed to include the Pakistani diaspora in the Tiger Relief Force launched by the prime minister to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus in the country by engaging the youth in relief work.
The Yaran-e-Watan programme has been launched with the assistance of International Organisation on Migration and World Health Organisation. The program will offer a two-way engagement by connecting overseas Pakistani health professionals with volunteer healthcare opportunities at Pakistani institutions and healthcare providers.
Moreover, the prime minister had urged the nation to practice selflessness during the holy month of Ramzan. Imran Khan said that the entire world is facing drastic consequences of the novel coronavirus. He advised the nation to help those in need by demonstrating complete unity and sacrifice.
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