Medical teams of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) sent to Mardan and Swabi for providing health cover to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are treating more than 400 patients daily. The UHS sent two mobile hospitals with 16 doctors, nurses and paramedical staffs last week to the districts of Mardan and Swabi.
The UHS medical teams have so far treated more than 4,000 patients at IDPs camps, a spokesman of the varsity, said on Saturday. 'All the doctors and nurses are providing day and night medical service to the IDPs with full devotion and professional zeal,' Dr Asma Karim, one of the doctors, who have recently returned from Mardan said.
Further, they are in poor condition, mentally as well as physically. The trauma they are facing makes them defenceless against diseases. There is a need to declare health emergency in the area and make every possible arrangement to sent teams of doctors from all over Pakistan and abroad to provide medical assistance to the IDPs, especially to thousands of pregnant women,' Dr Asma said.
A postgraduate nursing student at UHS, Naheed Raza told that the mobile hospitals sent by the university were fully equipped with medicines and equipment necessary for intravenous infusions, emergency management, treatment of gynecological problems and oral dehydration of children.
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