Pakistan opens medical camp for Afghan earthquake victims

The Pakistani Embassy in Kabul has announced the opening of a medical camp at Khost International Airport to help victims of the Afghan earthquake, Report informs referring to Daily Times.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has setup a specialized medical camp at Khost airport to provide urgent assistance to injured victims of earthquake of Afghanistan.

The camp’s officials started providing medical assistance to injured victims of the 6.1 magnitude powerful earthquake, which had wreaked havoc in Afghanistan. As many as 40 patients were provided relief in the medical camp equipped with ambulances, doctors, surgeons, orthopedics specialists, surgical equipment and others medicines at Khost district. The official said the critically injured afghans’ patients would be shifted to Pakistan for treatment on humanitarian ground.

He said Rescue 1122 teams were also deployed at Torkham, Angoor Adda and Ghulam Khan’s border areas of Pakistan for provision of quick humanitarian medical assistance and shifting of injured Afghans to nearby hospitals in Khyber, South Waziristan and other tribal districts.