Afghanistan | Kabul Surgical Centre Receives 20 People Following Explosion

Twenty people have been received at EMERGENCY’s Surgical Centre in Kabul following an explosion this afternoon in the Shahr-e-Naw area, near the hospital. Among those received were seven people dead on arrival.

The numbers of dead and injured are still provisional.

“So far, we have received twenty people at our hospital,” explains Dejan Panic, EMERGENCY’s Country Director in Afghanistan. “Among the wounded are four women and a child. The wounded, some of whom are being assessed for surgery, have suffered lacerations and bruises. Unfortunately, seven people were already dead on arrival.”

EMERGENCY has been present in Afghanistan since 1999 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 30 First Aid Posts and Primary Healthcare Centres.