4,400 eye patients applied to receive free treatment

KANDAHAR (Agencies): Saudi Arabia-Malik Salman Charity Foundation financially supports treating thousands of eye patients in southern Afghanistan.
4,400 men, children, and youth from Kandahar, Helmand, Zabul, and Uruzgan provinces have registered for eye treatment, a statement said.
The process is carried out by the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS), with the assistance of health officials and along with the financial support of the Malik Salman Charity Foundation.
All the patients are supposed to be treated for free at Mohmand private hospital in Kandahar until next Saturday.
Out of four thousand four hundred patients, the eyes of four hundred patients requires surgery, said Mawlavi Islam Pal, the head of the Afghan Red Crescent in the south of the country. Eye disease is one of the most common diseases in Afghanistan.
The exact statistics of the number of people suffering from this disease have not been published in Afghanistan, but tens of thousands of citizens are suffering from this disease.
The low economy of Afghan citizens has always made them unable from referring to meet a doctor for getting a cure.