{"id":13480,"date":"2024-03-01T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:00:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:00:47","slug":"oics-comstech-joins-hands-with-pakistan-hospital-for-eye-surgeries-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/oics-comstech-joins-hands-with-pakistan-hospital-for-eye-surgeries-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"OIC\u2019s COMSTECH joins hands with Pakistan hospital for eye surgeries in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong> The Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019s (OIC) Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) has joined hands with a leading Pakistani hospital to provide free cataract eye surgeries in Mogadishu, Somalia, from next month, state-run media reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">COMSTECH and Pakistan\u2019s Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital are collaborating with Al-Nur Foundation Somali and the Benadir University Somalia to organize a free cataract eye surgery camp in Mogadishu from March 1-10, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said in a report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe goal of this initiative is to eliminate avoidable blindness by providing free cataract surgeries to those in need,\u201d the report said, adding the camp would be organized at the Dalmar Specialized and Teaching Hospital in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">APP said that the eye surgery camp is poised to make a \u201csignificant impact\u201d on the lives of individuals in need.<br \/>\n\u201cBy offering free medical consultations, medications, eyeglasses, and surgeries to address cataract-related issues, the camp aims to alleviate the burden of visual impairment and improve the overall quality of life for participants,\u201d APP said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Headquartered in Pakistan\u2019s capital Islamabad, COMSTECH aims to strengthen cooperation among OIC member states in science and technology, and enhance their capabilities through training in emerging areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Arab News\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2468951\/pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation\u2019s (OIC) Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) has joined hands with a leading Pakistani hospital to provide free cataract eye surgeries in Mogadishu, Somalia, from next month, state-run media reported on Thursday. COMSTECH and Pakistan\u2019s Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital are collaborating with Al-Nur Foundation Somali &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13482,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}