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OGH gets a facelift

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Jamaat celebrate ‘khilafath’ centenary

Over 500 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat members take part in the operation
‘At a time when people are fighting over religion, we want to spread peace initiative’

– Photo: G. Krishnaswamy

Novel initiative: Ahmadiyya Jamaat members planting saplings on Osmania General Hospital premises on Saturday.

Hyderabad: Visitors to the Osmania General Hospital were in for a pleasant surprise on Saturday. The normally squalid and filthy interiors wore a dapper look. The used syringes, blood soaked cotton swabs, bandage strips dumped in a corner of the paan stained wards were gone. No, there was no VIP visiting the hospital.

One couldn’t figure out the neat look until one saw a group of men and women cleaning up the place. Wielding brooms, shovels and mops they tried their best to tidy the place. They were members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hyderabad, doing their bit to clean the huge hospital to mark the ‘khilafath’ centenary celebrations.

Donning white T-shirts and caps with the logo “love for all and hatred for none”, about 500 Jamaat members, including a large number of women, took up the operation clean up for four hours from 9 a.m.

Starting from the Golden Jubilee block to the rear gate, they collected the plastic bottles, polythene covers, hospital waste in gunny bags.

The men concentrated on the open courtyards and the outer periphery of the hospital while the women turned their attention to the female wards.

Mounds of garbage, wild grass and hospital litter were later loaded into the GHMC garbage vans. At least 10 vehicles carried the litter.

The Jamaat also planted 300 saplings in the OGH.

“At a time when people are fighting over religion, we want to spearhead the peace initiative all over the country”, said Dr. Aftab Ahmed Timmapuri, a Jamaat member.

He said the hospital authorities welcomed the cleaning drive taken up by the Jamaat. It was also planned to distribute fruits among patients in the Government Maternity Hospital, Nayapul, on Sunday.

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