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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