(Adnkronos) – 20 injured people have been received so far at Emergency’s Surgical Centre for War Victims in Kabul following an explosion today in the Shahr-e-Naw area, a central zone near the hospital. The toll is still evolving, according to a note from the NGO. “So far, we have received twenty patients at our hospital,” explains Dejan Panic, Emergency’s program director in Afghanistan. “Among the injured are also four women and one child. The injured, some of whom are being evaluated for possible surgical interventions, report wounds and bruises. Unfortunately, seven people arrived already dead, some arrived dismembered.”
After the end of the conflict on August 15, 2021, 50% of patients at Emergency’s hospital in Kabul are still considered war victims: they arrive at the emergency room with injuries from explosions or mines, firearms, or stab wounds (these account for half of the total injured). Violence and criminality are consequences of a war that ended in clashes but left behind abundant weapons, anti-personnel mines scattered especially in remote areas, and poverty.
Emergency has been present in Afghanistan since 1999 with two Surgical Centres in Kabul and Lashkar-gah, a Surgical and Paediatric Centre and a Maternity Centre in Anabah, in the Panjshir Valley, and a network of over 30 first aid posts and primary health centres.
