The Canadian military's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) has donated its health clinic to Pakistan as the team prepares to return home on completion of its mission in quake-hit Kashmir, a DART official said Friday. The team had set up the clinic with large tents, cots, stretchers, medicines and medical equipment with a total value of more than 300,000 Canadian dollars (257,000 U.S. dollars) in Gari Dopatta town of Pakistan-administered Kashmir after the October 8 earthquake, reported Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. The quake, which caused destruction over 28,000 square kilometres in parts of the country's Northwestern Frontier Province and Kashmir region, killed more than 73,000 people, injured 100,000 and left more than 3.5 million people homeless. "The clinic has been handed over to the Pakistani Red Crescent Society as we leave the country with lasting memories of the courage and resilience of the Kashmir people," DART's commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Mike Voith, said in Islamabad. --More 2321 Local Time 2021 GMT
