At least 30 children have tragically died due to shortage of medicines in Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, British newspaper “The Guardian” claimed.
The crisis has been worsened after the government’s decision to close key transportation routes to control sectarian clashes in the area.
While quoting Syed Mir Hasan, Medical Superintendent of the Central Hospital located in Para Chinar, the capital of Kurram district, the UK news outlet reported that shortage of medicines in sectarian violence area had claim lives of 30 children in hospital.
According to various reports, since October, more than 130 people lost their lives amid sectarian armed clashes, while the administration seems completely helpless to control the ongoing tension in the area.
Locals say they have shortages of food, milk, medicine and fuel and fear that the area will soon run out of all basic necessities. They condemned both local and central governments for their apparent lack of action to address the crisis.
Faisal Edhi, head of the Edhi Foundation, providing aid through helicopter to the affected area on Tuesday, reported that hospitals have run out of oxygen and medicines and the X-ray and CT scan machines are broken.
Conversely, the government has made the opening of roads to the area conditional to both groups handing over their heavy weapons to the administration.
