Radio Pakistan is broadcasting special programmes for the people in flood-hit areas of Sindh and to create awareness of dengue fever in various parts of the country. All AM and FM stations of Radio Pakistan will air special news bulletins with emphasis on weather updates in the flood-hit areas.
In addition to reporting teams already present in the area, more teams are being sent there to widen the coverage. For this purpose, a special cell has been set up at Radio Pakistan, Hyderabad. These teams will air reports both in Urdu and Sindhi languages from the flood-hit areas and highlight the sufferings as well as government efforts to provide relief to the people. Meanwhile, Radio Pakistan has also launched a fund-raising campaign to help the people affected by the floods.
In this connection, special motivational songs and programmes will be aired to persuade the people to contribute generously to the provincial relief fund. The listeners can contribute to the relief fund by sending an SMS on 4471. The amount so collected will be deposited with the provincial relief fund. Radio Pakistan has also initiated a special campaign to create awareness of dengue fever.
Under this campaign, patients and their attendants can call all stations of Radio Pakistan to appeal for blood donations. Their messages, including blood groups and names of hospitals and doctors concerned will be aired immediately and the listeners requested to help the patients. The employees of Radio Pakistan will contribute their one-day salary to the relief fund set up by the Sindh government for the flood-affected people in the province.
A decision to this effect was made at a special meeting with Director General Murtaza Solangi in the chair here on Saturday. Besides discharging its national duty of providing information and creating awareness among the people in the event of natural calamities, Radio Pakistan had provided donations to mitigate the sufferings of the countrymen during floods and earthquakes in the past as well.