Lahore General Hospital has received 15 wheelchairs from students at Ameer-ud-Din Medical College, who raised the money themselves and handed the chairs over through their welfare society, Humanity Still Exists. The Nation said the donation is meant to help patients move around the hospital. The report is datelined Lahore.
The society is also referred to by the initials HSE. Its members collected contributions among themselves, bought the chairs, and presented them as a welfare effort tied to their medical training.
Wheelchairs bought with student contributions
According to The Nation, students of Ameer-ud-Din Medical College shared the cost and used that common pool to buy the wheelchairs. The paper describes the collection as a sign of their commitment to serving people and to supporting patients in need.
The chairs are for Lahore General Hospital, so patients who need help getting about have another way to move inside the hospital. The Nation's report of 12 October 2026 records the scale of the gift, the student funding behind it, and the hospital that received it.
What was said at Sunday's ceremony
Prof Dr Jodat Saleem, principal of the Postgraduate Medical Institute (PGMI), addressed a ceremony on Sunday. In a few words, PGMI is the postgraduate medical institute whose principal spoke to the gathering. He praised the students' turn toward welfare. Service to humanity, together with the promotion of social welfare, he said, forms the base of a healthy society.
Active welfare societies in medical colleges, he said, help students develop empathy for people who are suffering and inspire them to become ethical, confident and compassionate doctors. Students who develop a passion for serving humanity during their academic years, he added, can uphold the highest professional standards. He presented the society as a place where that habit of service can form before students finish their studies.
Rs25,000 toward later welfare work
Welcoming the initiative, Prof Dr Jodat Saleem announced a personal donation of Rs25,000 to support Humanity Still Exists in its future welfare activities. The wheelchair purchase had already been met by the students' mutual contributions. His amount is for welfare work the society takes up later.
For patients, the practical result is more chairs for people who need help moving through the hospital. For the students, the ceremony placed a public welfare task beside their studies, which the PGMI principal described as preparation for ethical and compassionate practice.
The Nation's account records the handover of 15 wheelchairs, the students' pooled funding, the principal's words at Sunday's ceremony, and his Rs25,000 donation for later welfare work.
