ASADABAD (Pajhwok): The Public Health Department of eastern Kunar province has dispatched a 30-member medical team to Tokham township to treat ailing Afghan refugees returning from Pakistan.
Qari Muzafar Mukhlis, Kunar public health director, who saw off the doctors, said they had collected 460 boxes of different medicines worth 950,000 afghanis from private pharmacies in Asadabad city during a two-day campaign.
He said: “We have formed a health team and collected medicines for returning families at Torkham town.”
He added the team would remain in Torkham until the deportation of refugees came to an end.
Kunar residents welcomed the Public Health Department’s move to send doctors to Torkham and said common people and aid organizations should also assist the returnees.
Mohammad Ismail, a resident of Asadabad, told Pajhwok: “We should assist our Afghan brothers in all spheres of life and should provide them with shelter”.
Mohammad Laiq Samon, a civil society activist, said all living requirements of the returnees should be met.
He said government agencies should be used to provide necessary assistance to the families in a coordinated manner.
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