CHITRAL, Oct 28: At least 1,200 people were treated at a medical camp arranged by the Al-Khidmat Foundation in Kosht village of Chitral on Sunday.

Mobile clinical laboratories were also set up in the area and medical tests were carried out on the needy patients.

District coordinator Abdul Haq told Dawn that the medical camp in the far-flung village was a great service to an area which lacked doctors, diagnostic facilities and medicines.

He said medicines were also distributed to most of the patients free of cost who did not afford to purchase it.

Mr Haq said more such free medical camps were being arranged in other remote villages of the district, adding that the organisation had completed a modern diagnostic laboratory in Chitral where nominal fee would be charged from poor patients for clinical tests.

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