MAPIM INITIATES BUILDING OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN GAZA       

 
      
    KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 26 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Islamic Organisations
Consultative Council (MAPIM) has taken the initiative to build a children's
hospital in Gaza with an initial contribution of USD$60,000 (RM180,00).
    
    Its secretary-general Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid who joined the Second Ramadan
Mission to Gaza (RADIG2) recently, said Malaysians who wished to contribute to
the building of the hospital, could do so through the MAPIM GAZA FUND (BIMB
08013010075820).
    
    "We hope Malaysians will donate to the hospital building fund to help the
Palestinians, especially the children, lead a better life," he said at the Kuala
Lumpur International Airport after returning from the mission Wednesday.
    
    National astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor who had also joined the
33-member delegation on the mission, said the initial contribution was handed
over to the Palestine Health Minister whom they met in Gaza.
    
    He said he saw for himself the acute shortage of medical specialists,
doctors, hospital beds, operating theatres and medicines in Gaza, and many of
the women and children were badly in need of proper health care.
    
    -- BERNAMA