BAJAUR, Oct 10: The Edhi Foundation has made elaborate arrangements to provide medical treatment to casualties from the on-going bombardment in Afghanistan who might arrive in the Bajaur Agency.

Four ambulances and nine workers have reached the base camp of the Edhi Foundation set up in the Agency to provide emergency treatment facilities to the injured.

This was stated by Nadeem Zafar, in charge of the Edhi Foundation’s operations in the Bajaur Agency, at a press conference here on Wednesday.

He said the Edhi Foundation had made emergency arrangements to provide first aid and medical treatment to the injured of Afghan war in almost all tribal areas of the country bordering Afghanistan.

He said the foundation had set up treatment centres in government-run health facilities along the Pakistan-Afghan border in the Bajaur Agency to cope with the influx of injured people and provide them in time treatment.

Nadeem Zafar said the Edhi Foundation had directed its medical and paramedical staff to remain alert round- the-clock to provide medical assistance to the casualties which might arrive in the Pakistan areas.

Besides, dozens of vehicles have also been hired by the foundation to shift the injured from the border areas to hospitals, health units and treatment centres of the Edhi Foundation, he said, adding that in case of a severe emergency Edhi choppers would be available on one hour notice.

Apart from treatment facilities to the injured, the Foundation has also made arrangements to provide medicines, food, clothes and other necessary items of daily use to the injured Afghans, Nadeem added.

He also appealed to the government to open its borders with Afghanistan to facilitate the arrival of the injured people languishing at the borders. He revealed that the Edhi Foundation had also deployed its nursing staff at the base camp established at the Agency Headquarters Hospital, Khar, where medicines and other necessities would be provided to the injured.