Dr Khan now back Moreton Hall's Mount Farm Surgery, in Bury St Edmunds Doctor returns from mercy mission to earthquake-torn Pakistan A mercy mission by a Bury St Edmunds doctor has helped thousands of victims of the Pakistan earthquake. Dr Imran Khan, 33, who works at Mount Farm Surgery, Moreton Hall, was so moved by the TV pictures of his fellow countrymen that he flew out to the country to offer his help.

Dr Khan, who was born in Lahore, Pakistan, spent two weeks giving basic medical treatment to more than 5,900 sick and wounded people in appalling conditions in a remote mountain village.

"I feel attached to Pakistan because if I have taken something from the people by being born and educated there I have got to give something back."

Helped by more than £4,000 in donations which flooded in from patients, staff and Bury-based companies, Dr Khan carried 350kg of medical supplies to the devastated area.

"I wanted to go where nobody could go because the doctors were focusing on the larger areas and nobody was going to the smaller villages," he said.

An army helicopter flew Dr Khan, who lives in Cambridge with his wife and two children, to the isolated village of Rashang in the north-west of the country.

Dr Khan is now raising funds for a return trip to the village next March, after the winter snow has melted, to build a more permanent medical centre.

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