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International staff: 7 MSF work in Pakistan has been largely focused on assistance to Afghans who have sought refuge there. MSF has worked in camps for refugees inside Pakistan, just across the border in Afghanistan, and in an area just inside the Pakistani border known as the "Waiting Area." MSF advocated consistently for the admission of people in the "Waiting Area" as refugees in Pakistan, and for an immediate improvement in the levels of assistance by other agencies. The "Waiting Area" was finally closed at the end of July 2003; about half the 25,000 refugees there chose to go to Mohammed Kheil camp inside Pakistan near Quetta and were granted refugee status; the others returned to Afghanistan, many to Zhare Dasht camp near Kandahar. MSF continues to provide health care, nutritional support in the form of feeding programs, chlorination of water, and measles immunization to about 17,000 refugees in two of the five camps located inside Pakistan near Chaman; work is also beginning at Mohammed Kheil camp. MSF also works across the border in camps for the displaced near Spin Boldak, Afghanistan (and in many other locations in Afghanistan, see page 70); the future of the Spin Boldak camps is under discussion as people there begin to be relocated inside Afghanistan. In July 2003, MSF mobile clinics brought basic medical care to people affected by floods in Sindh province.
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