'Guiness Book of World Records-2000'
"BIGGEST
VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ORGANIZATION: Abdul Sattat Edhi (Pakistan) began his
ambulance service in 1948 by ferrying injured people to hospital, and has since
developed a service which attracts funds of $5 million (Pounds Sterling 3.02
million) per year, with no government assistance. His radio-linked network
includes 500 ambulances throughout Pakistan, and he has also set up 300 relief
centres, three air ambulances, 24 hospitals, three drug relabilitation centres,
women's centres, free dispensaries, adoption programmes and soup kithcens that
feed 100,000 people a month. He has paid for and supervised the training of
17,000 nurses. The ambulance service picks up corpses, and the organization
arranges Muslim burials. Edhi has not taken a holiday in 45 years."