This is the fifteenth time that the medical units of the Pakistani and Bangladeshi battalions have provided mobile medical assistance in the area which has resulted in more than 8,500 local people receiving this much-needed care, the report said.
Major Hamid Hassan, the 3rd Pakistani Battalion's officer in charge of relations with the local civilian community, said, "This initiative aims to strengthen humanitarian actions in the health sector and strengthen relations between the MINUSCA Force and the population. We plan to do it twice a month, depending on our possibilities."
MINUSCA Military Force' gesture of medical help promotes its acceptance among the civilian population and contributes to the efforts to restore or maintain peace, the report said. Such Civil-Military Cooperation activities are an integral part of MINUSCA operational planning to help the mission achieve it objectives, especially when the national authorities are not fully able to perform their functions.
Pakistan currently provides 1,138 military and police personnel to MINUSCA, whose top priority is the protection of civilians.