How did a four-month-old baby reach Pakistan from Afghanistan?

 Afghanistan, Pakistan border closure: A few months old Afghan child who arrived in Pakistan from Afghanistan for treatment without parents

 While sending my critically ill 4-month-old baby to Pakistan with an unknown truck driver, I was in a dilemma of not knowing what would happen to my baby. Will there be treatment in Pakistan or not? All day long I kept thinking about what would happen next. '

These were the thoughts that were circulating in the mind of a mother in Afghanistan when she brought her sick child to Torkham on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

The boy's parents were not allowed to cross the border due to border closures during fighting between Taliban fighters and Afghan forces, but the boy was in critical condition and needed immediate treatment.

Many Afghans come to Pakistan for better treatment, but the ongoing tensions in Afghanistan and the resulting border closures have created problems for such families.

The Afghan woman told the BBC: "We waited a long time to cross the border at Torkham, begging the personnel stationed there, but since the border was closed, no one was allowed to cross. All our efforts and prayers in this regard were not working.

On the other hand, the mother was upset to see the child bubbling with pain and she always wanted to take the child to a doctor.

She says one of her children fell ill earlier and died at a hospital in the Afghan city of Jalalabad due to poor treatment. The child's parents had similar concerns again.How did a four-month-old baby reach Pakistan from Afghanistan?

A few days ago in Jalalabad, after seeing the child's illness and his deteriorating condition, the parents decided that the child would have to be taken to Peshawar, Pakistan for treatment in any case.

The decision is about 130km between Dzhalal-Abad and Peshawar, which is normally decided in a few hours.

The boy's father, Amir Jan, is from Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Amir Jan said one of his sons fell ill at the age of four months and then died.

"When this son got sick in the same way, different thoughts started circulating in my wife's mind."

Amir Jan said his son had a high fever in Afghanistan which was not going away.

They took the child to Dzhalal-Abad Hospital but his health did not improve.

He told the BBC: "Doctors in Jalalabad advised to take the child to Pakistan, but the problem was that in the current situation, travel to Pakistan was difficult because of the border closure.

"My wife and I were worried about what would happen next. There was an unknown fear in the hearts. In view of this situation, we decided to send the child to Pakistan. God willing, he will recover. '

"I work at the border," he says. I have other colleagues with me. There are some truck drivers who come and go in Pakistan.

"I told a    one of my colleague that my son is very ill. He is not being treated in Afghanistan. Tell me a way so that we can go to Pakistan."

He says a friend was found going to Pakistan.

It was very difficult for us to decide whether to send the child to another country without a parent while he was seriously ill with a truck driver.

Amir Jan says that he was worried about his wife along with the child because she was very upset and she used to say that she did not know what would happen. The child will reach Pakistan safely and whether the child can be treated there or not.

But after a phone call from Pakistan, both of them lost their lives.

When the child arrived at the hospital and treatment began, the companion said over the phone, "The child is fine now and treatment has begun. He was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar.

The baby is being taken care of and all the medicines are being provided, he was told.

A few months old baby reached Peshawar in perfect health but now the problem was that he was upset because he was not close to his mother. Then someone posted all this on social media and wrote that the baby in the hospital is having difficulty in caring for the baby because the baby's pampers also have to be changed, he has to breastfeed and that the baby misses the mother. Has been

A post was made on Facebook in which it was said that "a child repeatedly opens his eyes and looks for his mother."

The news went so viral on social media that people's hearts were filled with sympathy for the child and the mother and the Pakistani government took action.

According to local media reports, Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Pir Noorul Haq Qadri took action and contacted Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Moeed Yousuf to allow the child's parents to visit Pakistan. The child's parents arrived in Peshawar two days ago after contacting Moeed Yousaf.

Amir Jan says we were asked by a phone call if you want to come to Pakistan? What else did we want, we just said 'yes'. So we were told to just come to the border. 'And from there we came to Pakistan by the border of Parker.

I can't describe the joy we got from this phone call

At the hospital, the mother is so busy serving her child that she does not want to talk to anyone.

According to the doctors of Hayatabad Medical Complex, the condition of the child is better and he will be discharged from the hospital in a day or two.

The importance of Peshawar hospitals for Afghan citizens

Doctors at the hospital said it was not a single patient from Afghanistan who had arrived in Pakistan in this way, but dozens of Afghan patients came on a daily basis.

Tawheed Zulfiqar, a spokesman for the Hayatabad Medical Complex, told the BBC that a large number of patients from Afghanistan come here for treatment. He said that patients from Afghanistan are still admitted in other wards and they are being provided full medical aid.

"When the baby was brought in, the doctors and staff at the hospital took full care of him and provided full medical assistance."

Patients from Afghanistan reach not only the Hayatabad Medical Complex but also other hospitals in Peshawar such as Khyber Teaching Hospital, Lady Reading Hospital and other private hospitals.

Although the number has decreased due to the closure of the border, a large number of patients from Afghanistan are still admitted to these hospitals._