He said the Al-Khidmat Foundation was the only agency that started its relief operation in remote areas of all five devastated districts of the Frontier province.
Talking to reporters, he said the relief operations of the Al-Khidmat Foundation was under way and it would continue till the complete rehabilitation of quake victims, adding in the affected areas of NWFP, the Foundation has set up six field hospitals and 15 mobile dispensaries along with one surgical hospital at Abbottabad.
He said in all these units almost 50,000 patients were given treatment and medicines costing Rs 20 million were distributed among them. He told the media persons that the Al-Khidmat Foundation divided its relief operation into three phases- the first phase of rescuing the people from debris of the buildings, the second phase of providing shelter, blankets, food, proper treatment and other daily use items, while the most difficult and important third phase would be the rehabilitation of quake victims on permanent basis.
Mushtaq Khan said the Al-Khidmat Foundation has sent 650 trucks load of relief goods to the calamity-hit areas of NWFP. "Our 4,500 workers are actively involved in relief operation in these areas", he added. He said that besides relief operation the Al-Khidmat Foundation has formed many search teams to locate far-flung and inaccessible areas, which were busy in finding such areas to which aid had not been reached.
He said the government has not paid proper attention to these areas the relief operation would be converted into death operation, as the death toll would be increased in harsh weather due to inefficiency of government. He said that Army had taken over the relief operation, but relief was not reached many areas, adding that Army officials have admitted that in Alai they received only 10,000 blankets whereas the number of affected people in these areas were much more.