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Pakistan epidemiologist on tourof
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A renowned Pakistani epidemiologist and researcher Prof. Aurangzed Hafi who has conducted an extensive survey of the newly born babies in the tsunami affected areas in this region is raising an alarm of a risk increase of child retardation in such children and calls upon health organisations like the WHO and UNICEF to consider taking early action on the problem.
In a statement released yesterday through Tsunami Diaster International Syndicate, Sri Lanka Secretariat Prof. Hafi says.
To bring the situation under control, some special immune enhancing and nutritional supplements should be developed and should be exclusively formulated, by focusing upon, and according to the specified needs of the post disaster situation,
The findings of (CRRA) survey along with the elucidated suggestions made by the researcher, have been made available to conscientious international agencies for further actions to be taken upon. The Tsunami's CRRA Survey has provided core nucleus, on which response coordination can be built. It has provided important and major issues to be raised up and dealt with.
On humanitarian basis, he is willing to extend his services voluntarily, and ready to cooperate with governmental and non governmental organizations to help the victims of tsunami, he added.
The extensive research project was a joint venture of two non governmental platforms namely MAVSO Intl. and English biscuit Manufacturers (Pvt) Limited of Pakistan as a contribution from Pakistanis, for the tsunami victims.
EBM is bearing all of his expenses of lodging-boarding and air-travelling, while |
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MAVSO Intl, is responsible for the instrumentations and equipmentations regarding the project.
Nowadays he is on board to embark upon tracking the next phase of his project, i.e. Tsunami 'Child Retardation Risk Management' (CRRM). In this phase of the
project, he has also planned to provide the maximum possible
quantity of the recommended nutritional supplements in Aceh, Sumatra, and Sri Lanka in an earliest possible time frame and seeks for philanthropic help by local, regional and international institutions, donors and organizational platforms.
The esteemed contributions of the tsunami 'Child Retardation Risk Assessment and Management' Projects have fetched a prudently benevolent laurel, with a justly respectable visibility of Pakistan at an international echelon. |
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