Following a bomb blast in the capital of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan today (10 December), MSF treated fourteen patients in the organisation’s surgical hospital. The explosion occurred close to a market in central Kunduz around noon today. MSF teams treated patients with blast-related...
As violent conflict continues in northern Afghanistan, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a 55-bed surgical hospital in Kunduz Province. The hospital, which opened on August 29, provides urgent surgical care and follow-up treatment for people suffering...
In recent years, Afghanistan’s Helmand province has seen some of the bloodiest and relentless fighting in the whole of the country. Large numbers of people have been displaced, and for most, accessing medical care remains a constant challenge. Faced with such enormous needs, Médecins Sans...
Following an attack against a military bus in the suburb of Ahmed Shah Baba in eastern Kabul on Saturday, April 9, 2011, seven people with medium to severe injuries were treated in the emergency department of the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported Ahmed Shah Baba Hospital. MSF medical staff...
This piece was originally published in english on ForeignPolicy.com's AfPak Channe By Michiel HOFMAN As dissection of the Obama Administration’s Afghanistan strategy review continues, lost in the debate is the reality for Afghans trapped in the middle of this nine-year war. For them, seeking...
MSF started working again in Afghanistan in October 2009, after a five-year absence following the assasination of five colleagues in Badghis province in June 2004. MSF’s return was motivated by an overall worsening in healthcare provision as the country became once again engulfed by war. The Afghan...
MSF is shocked by the killing of a medical team from the humanitarian organisation 'International Assistance Mission' (IAM) in Badakhshan , Afghanistan . This can only detrimentally affect and undermine the work carried out by the medical community in the country, and the Afghan people relying...
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff worked together with local hospital staff at Boost hospital, Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, to treat 24 wounded after four explosions occurred in the city centre on Sunday morning, 20th June “Patients started arriving at the emergency room twenty...
“Here, doctor is free and medicine is free. I don’t even have my own home, but still, I was able to get my one year old child vaccinated and examined in this hospital.” Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been supporting the district hospital of Ahmed Shah Baba in Eastern Kabul since October 2009...
“The entire way I thought I was going to die - not because of my disease, but because of the shelling and the landmines” Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has now started supporting the regional Boost hospital in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province in Afghanistan. Our aim is to provide free,...
