ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: A Pakistan-origin Swedish woman Saema Beg has brought 147 huge thermal tents from Sweden for establishing tent schools and hospitals in earthquake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir and North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Talking to Dawn she vowed to set up a well-equipped 100-bed hospital in a devastated area to provide better medical care to the affected people.

Ms Saema Beg, a student of Ph.D Medical in Sweden said, these tents had special characteristic of cold resistance as they could be used even in minus 20 centigrade temperature because of in-built heating system.

The cost of each tent, which can house 30 people, was stated to be $500 and they were not for residential purposes, she said.

Ms Beg had met several ministers so that the tents she had brought from Sweden, could be used in befitting manner.

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