LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid met with philanthropists and welfare organisations’ representatives to chalk out a strategy for the support to the marginalised population in Punjab in the wake of corona restrictions at the Deputy Commissioner office here on Wednesday.
Executive Director Akhuwat Dr Amjad Saqib and Professor Hussain Jaffery were also present in the meeting along with notable members of leading welfare organisations. Akhuwat, one of world’s largest interest-free micro finance and social development organisations, has already started a programme for ration supply to the marginalised. The minister apprised the participants of the Punjab government plan to provide supplies and essentials to the labourers and street vendors.