An international non-governmental organisation, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), has called for sparing medical structure and patients from the violence. MSF, which is working in Bajaur, the area borders Afghanistan, called for respect and safety and security of patients, health facilities, and medical staff. All actors in the area must ensure that medical activities can take place unhindered and not be targeted.
Since March 2013 MSF medical teams have been running a mobile clinic in Bajaur, providing primary healthcare services in three Basic Healthcare Units (BHUs). Some 200 patients are treated every week. MSF is committed to responding to the medical needs of the population in the area. The safety and security of healthcare is essential for MSF to continue to expand its medical intervention in Bajaur, it added.
MSF teams are currently providing free emergency medical care in Kurram Agency, Bajaur Agency, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces. MSF relies solely on private financial contributions from individuals around the world and does not accept funding from any government, donor agency, or military or politically affiliated group for its activities in Pakistan.