Turkey's state-run aid agency has set up a medical facility

 Turkey's state-run aid agency has set up a medical facility

 Turkey's state-run aid agency has set up a medical facility for surgeries of children born with cleft lip and palate in Pakistan.

The specialised operation theater has been set up at Al Mustafa Medical Center - a charity hospital run by a local NGO - in the southern port city of Karachi.

Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency's (TIKA) coordinator Ibrahim Katirci, founder of the charity Haji Muhammad Hanif Tayyab and provincial Governor Imran Ismail inaugurated the facility. The facility, according to a statement from TIKA, will perform up to 1,000 surgeries annually.