Can you describe the conditions in a district such as Mardan, where so many IDPs now live?
We provide free treatment to anyone who comes to one of our clinics. At the hospital in Mardan, we have set up an emergency department as well as treatment stations for both men and women. There is also a severe diarrhea treatment center, which is isolated from the main hospital to ensure that hygiene standards are not compromised. We treat an increasing number of suspected cholera patients at the center in that endemic region. The World Health Organization (WHO) has performed analysis for further investigation. We are working in six primary health centers in and around Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province. Every week, we treat approximately 1,000 patients, most of whom are suffering from diarrhea, respiratory diseases, or skin conditions. We treat many sick children, such as 10-year-old Basit. Accompanied by his mother, he arrived at the primary health center in Darband in the east of the North West Frontier Province, where we were already treating his two brother
