In the Pakistan Punjab relief camp such as the Hanfia School Camp in Kasur in particular the circumstances of women, children and those who arrived with terrible wounds, yet received at best rudimentary medical assistance. A large number of them succumbed to the epidemics which swept refugee camps.

Additional information: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/after-the-massacres-nursing-survivors-of-partition-violence-in-pakistan-punjab-camps/A306445A415255571B5A739D5CB31A3B

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