KABUL (SW): Due to restrictions on travel, and persecution by the police in Pakistan, more and more Afghans are choosing India and Turkey over Pakistan for medical treatment.
Some reports even suggest that the business of private hospitals in Pakistan that was heavily relying on the patients from Afghanistan are now faced with financial losses.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), more and more patients from Afghanistan seeking treatment abroad are heading either to India or Turkey.
Shakib Mustaghni, spokesman for the MoFA said in this regard that the government was doing its best to help the citizen obtain visa for medical treatment abroad.
Razaq Barq, an independent journalist in Quetta, Pakistan told Salam Watandar on phone that the private hospitals are faced with financial losses following the restrictions imposed on patients coming to Pakistan from Afghanistan for treatment.
He quoted a Pakistani politician Lutfur Rahman who told the Khyber Pakthunkhwa provincial assembly yesterday 70 percent of the Afghans who used to visit Pakistan for treatment are now choosing India for it.
We wished to have the views of officials at the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul on this matter but they said they are unaware about this issue.
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