Daily Times

KHYBER AGENCY: Health condition of dozens of stranded Afghan national patients, including male and female further worsens as the Torkham border remained close on the 14th day.

Most of the patients have got kidney, cancer, Hepatitis diseases beside with major surgery patients. Fazal Haq, resident of Kabul said that his father, Hamesha Gul was kidney patient and had brought to Hayat Teaching Hospital, Peshawar for medical treatment where from the doctors discharged him after providing necessary medication. However he said due to suspension of Torkham border, they were not permitted to cross into their country. “My father is being laid on bare ground for the last few days that deteriorated his condition and swelling developed in his body that needs immediate dialysis”, Fazal Haq regretted.

Holding his father tests and other receipts he lamented that if they were not let to cross the border to Afghanistan his ailing father would pass away prior reaching to his home.

He maintained that agency headquarter hospital lacked dialysis facility to provide emergency medical assistance and asked the Pak authorities to allow the patients to move to their native towns in Afghanistan.

Mubaais, resident of Nengarhar another patient said that his right hand had open fracture and for the last year it had been passing through multiple surgeries in private hospital in Debgori garden, Peshawar.

Previous week, the doctor freed him of hospital after fixing rods in his hand. But ironically the border was closed and his hand was paining as he was serving stranded days and nights under an open sky in the cold weather.

For the last two weeks, Landi Kotal bazaar shopkeepers and local philanthropists are supplying cooked food to the struck Afghan citizens who have taken refuge in under construction building in the bazaar.

It is to mentioned here that the numbers of stranded Afghan citizens in Landi Kotal crossed figure of six hundreds because the government has launched a massive search operation across the country and the Afghanis in fear of detention has fled and have come to Khyber Agency to go home to Afghanistan.