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Brad Pitt donates orthopaedic beds for quake victims in Pakistan
Dec 29, 2005, 12:57 GMT
Hollywood star and UNHCR good will ambassador Angelina Jolie (L) and Hollywood star Brad Pitt (C) talk with Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi on Friday 25 November 2005. Angelina Jolie, a goodwill ambassador of the U.N. Refugees Agency (UNHCR), Thursday visited some of the areas ravaged by October\'s earthquake that killed more than 75,000 people and made another 3.5 million homeless. Since making her debut in 1984, Oscar-winner Jolie has acted in many box-office hits, but is known to her fans in Pakistan more for her role in "Tomb Raider". EPA/PRESS INFORMATION DEPARTMENT/HO
Islamabad - A local hospital here has received the first of 40 orthopaedic beds Hollywood star Brad Pitt donated for the October 8 earthquake victims during a visit to Pakistan last month, a news report said on Thursday.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) delivered the bed to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Wednesday. The entire lot of 40 beds is worth 100,000 U.S. dollars, the English-language daily The Nation reported.
'We are grateful to our donor, Mr. Brad Pitt, for supporting the relief efforts for the earthquake affected people of Pakistan, ' UNHCR's representative in Pakistan Guenet Guebre-Christos said while handing over the bed to hospital authorities.
PIMS Executive Director Dr. Syed Fazle Hadi said the beds are designed to tilt from side to side and move up and down using electronic switches and hydraulics and make it easier for nurses to move the patients.
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