The war in Afghanistan may have brought progress in the medical field, but the international aid has
not reached the remote villages of Afghanistan where traditional
'cures' sees patients imprisoned and forced to live on nothing but bread
in stinking cells at the local shrines.
The Mia Ali Baba shrine in village of Samar Khel, outside the eastern
city of Jalalabad, is no different, and many locals still believe that
the grim ordeal at the shrine will cure mental health problems, or as they see it, possession by 'evil spirits'.
There are a myriad of reasons why the 'patients' are locked up at the shrine, a majority forced by family members, ranging from depression to family arguments.
A man named Din Muhammed explains that he has been chained up for 40
days over a fight with his father, but some of the unfortunate are never
collected from the shrine and stay for six to eight months in the
shrine. Not all survive, and their bodies are buried in the yard.
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