ISLAMABAD: Minister for Economic Affairs Hammad Azhar today (Thursday) announced that China has agreed to send aid worth $4 million to Pakistan, alongside face masks and ventilators.
Hammad Azhar took to Twitter and said, “I would like to thank China for providing grant assistance of $4 million along with 300,000 medical face masks, 10 ventilators and other equipment.
I would like to thank the People’s Republic of China for providing grant assistance of USD 4 million along with 300,000 medical face masks, 10 ventilators and other equipment. They have also undertaken to arrange for much greater number of ventilators.
— Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) March 19, 2020
Hammad Azhar further said that China has also undertaken to arrange for much greater number of ventilators.
In another tweet, Hammad Azhar announced that emergency funds from the National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF), supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), worth Rs7.5 billion were also being made available to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Emergency funds from ADB supported NDRMF (approx Rs 7.5 bn) are also being made available for NDMA. This is in addition to funds already made availaible by finance division for immediate use by authority. Reallocations from foreign funded projects also being diverted towards it.
— Hammad Azhar (@Hammad_Azhar) March 19, 2020
The federal minister also said, “This is in addition to funds already made available by finance division for immediate use by the authority.”
“Reallocations from foreign-funded projects also being diverted towards it,” the federal minister concluded.
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