NGO hospital staff leaves country

Published October 14, 2001

MANSEHRA, Oct 13: After the threats from the religious party’s activists, the foreign staff of Bach Christen, missionary, Hospital Qalander Abad has left the country, which has made the life of the patients and their relatives miserable, it was learnt.

According to details Bach Christen hospital was established as a missionary hospital at the village Qalander Abad some 10 km from Mansehra towards Abbottabad. Recently around 500 patients from Hazara division and other parts of the NWFP attending the hospital daily but after the US-led attacks on the Afghanistan, the missionary staff most of them doctors have gone back to their homeland and as a result patient from Hazara are badly suffering. —Our Correspondent

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