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India-Pakistan
Pakistan hospitals, camps are overwhelmed
2009-05-15
Sucks to live in a third world country amidst a civil war. But don't worry, President Ten-Percent is eating well, as is Sufi Muhammed.
Reporting from Mardan, Pakistan -- Shaista Behran lay on a hospital bed with a battered leg and a burdened psyche after watching several members of her family diebefore her eyes. The 8-year-old and her family fled the village of Wodkhi in Pakistan's war-torn Swat Valley last week, making it as far as the area's biggest town, Mingora, when a mortar shell exploded nearby.

"I saw my brother, two sisters and my mother die in front of me," she said, her words halting and barely audible, as a fly settled on her matted black hair. "Then everything went dark and I woke up here in the hospital."

The pus and blood had soaked through the dirty bandage on her left leg as she lay on her side in the overloaded women's ward of District Headquarters Hospital No. 1 in Mardan. The staff wasn't sure how she got here and hoped one of her relatives would show up soon to help her.
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