Afghanistan | Kabul Surgical Centre Receives 40 People Following Explosions

Forty people, including five dead, have arrived at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul following explosions in the capital at 4pm (local time) on 15 October.

“We started receiving ambulances filled with wounded people, and we learned that there had been explosions a few kilometres away from our hospital,” explains Dejan Panic, EMERGENCY’s Country Director in Afghanistan. “40 people have arrived so far, including women and children. They have shrapnel wounds, blunt force trauma and burns. Ten are in critical condition. Unfortunately, five people were already dead on arrival. The numbers of dead and injured are still provisional.”

EMERGENCY has been in Afghanistan since 1999, and remains present with two Surgical Centres in Kabul and Lashkar-Gah, a Surgical-Paediatric Centre and a Maternity Centre in Anabah (Panjshir Valley), and a network of more than 40 First Aid Posts and Primary Healthcare Centres.