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Cold war, holy war, war against terrorism... apparently Afghanistan sees nothing but war.
In more than 30 years, wars in Afghanistan have killed more than one and a half million people and created nearly four million refugees.
Other victims have been caused by the endless fighting, by the widespread availability of firearms, or by one of the countless landmines scattered around the country.
To these counts must be added the victims of a modern day hazard: unofficial figures speak of five children per day killed in road accidents in or around Kabul.
Malnutrition, insufficient access to safe water, outbreaks of tuberculosis and malaria increase the pressures on an already inefficient national health system.

 

Emergency’s involvement in Afghanistan began in 1999 when Emergency built a Surgical Centre in Anabah, a village in the Panjshir Valley, at the time under the control of Commander Massoud, the leader of Northern Alliance.
Two years later, Emergency built a second Surgical Centre in Kabul, which was then under Taliban rule.
In 2003 Emergency built a hospital in Lashkar-gah, in Helmand, a Pashtun province where specialized surgical facilities were totally lacking.
Always in 2003, Emergency opened a Maternity centre in Anabah,to assist the Panjshir valley women.

Throughout the country Emergency has created a network of 28 First Aid Posts and Health Care Centres in order to guarantee the rapid treatment of patients and, if necessary, their transfer to hospital.
Since 2001, Emergency has provided healthcare to some of the country’s prisons and set up a work project for women in the Panjshir Valley.

Since December 1999, Emergency has treated over 2.659.223 people in Afghanistan.
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