QUETTA, March 8: The Polish ambassador to Pakistan, Tomasz Kozlowski, has handed over medicines and hospital equipment worth over US$300,000 to four major hospitals in Balochistan for Afghan refugees.

Speaking at a news conference here on Friday evening, the Polish envoy listed the names of hospitals as Bolan Medical College Hospital, government hospitals at Naushki and Chaman and a private hospital in Quetta run by a Non-Governmental Organization.

He said that medicines and equipment for government hospital, Chaman, would be shared with the Afghan government hospital in Spin Boldak. The Chaman hospital’s share in the equipment would be around 80 per cent.

The Polish envoy said that last year, his government donated clothes for the Afghan refugee children and 9,000 units were handed over to the Mohammad Khail Afghan Refugee Camp.

The cost of relief goods was about $25,000 and this year there was a substantial increase, the envoy said.

The Polish envoy recalled the traditional relations with Pakistan as scores of war refugees were in Karachi who came after World War II. Some of the Polish families are still settled in Karachi, one of the top naval officers in 1940s was from Poland, he said.