OGDCL provides 15 ambulances, operates dispensaries in four districts.

ISLAMABAD -- Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, was providing all possible healthcare facilities to local communities residing in surrounding localities of the company fields from where oil and gas is being produced.

'The company has so far provided around 15 state of the art Basic Life Support ambulances in the underdeveloped areas of Federal Capital, Punjab, Sindh, Kyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, besides it is operating social welfare dispensaries in four districts,' a senior official told reporter.

In award of ambulances and establishment of dispensaries, he said priority had been given to the operational districts of OGDCL under a 'Mega Health Initiative' to ensure provision of free of cost basic health facilities to local communities.

'We firmly believe that primary healthcare is an absolute pre- requisite for sustainable socio-economic development.'

Under some of the CSR initiatives, he said, the company had established four social welfare dispensaries at Jehlum, Sanghar, Tando Allah yar and Karak districts to mitigate sufferings of locals residing in and around OGDCL's operational areas.

The company also constructed a dispensary at Chak...