PESHAWAR, Oct 22: About 200 fresh Afghan refugees were treated at an eye camp organized at the Naseer Teaching Hospital on Sunday.

Specialists, students of Kabir Medical College and Sardar Begum Dental College as well as nurses from the Farkhanda Institute of Nursing and Public Health served, while certain companies provided free medicines.

The chairman of the Gandhara Institute of Medical Sciences Peshawar, Prof Mohammad Kabir, said that the purpose of the camp was to cure those aged men and women whose eyesight had suffered owing to sudden shocks of recent bombings in their country.

Prof Kabir said that they would continue to help Afghan refugees residing in the vicinity of the hospital.