Critically-ill Afghan minor recuperating fast

HMC spokesman says hospital providing ‘best medical care’

PESHAWAR:

A 10-month-old Afghan child, who was shifted to Peshawar via Torkhum border from Afghanistan in a precarious condition, was recovering fast at the Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) Peshawar and was likely to be discharged in a couple of days.

The HMC spokesman told APP on Monday that the condition of Afghan child Shahid, son of Ajmeer Khan, was now stable and would be discharged in a day or two from the hospital. The spokesman said “best medical care” was being provided to the ailing patient.

Child’s father Ajmeer Khan and his mother, who are present with their ailing son, had expressed complete satisfaction over his treatment besides residential facilities provided to them, the spokesman said.

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“I belong to Afghanistan. My son was critically ill and we immediately handed him over to a neighbour truck driver to shift him to Peshawar’s hospital. We could not come with him due to unavailability of traveling documents and closure of Torkhum border,” he said.

According to locals, the truck driver handed over him to local tribal elders at village Bacha Meena at Khyber tribal district, who shifted the Afghan child to HMC in precarious condition on July 14.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2021.