First Aid Posts and Primary Health Clinics
Afghanistan - Over 40 villages
6,278,805
Patients treated
126,853
Patients transferred to hospital
313
National staff
FAPs and PHCs
It is crucial to provide assistance to ill and wounded people as quickly as possible; to broaden access to medical facilities, reaching places far away from larger hospitals; to provide even the smallest settlements with medical equipment; and to develop healthcare competencies within communities. These are some of the core aims of EMERGENCY’s network of First Aid Posts (FAPs) and Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs). In Afghanistan, a lack of healthcare facilities and hazardous road conditions means that hundreds of thousands of people living in remote areas of the country are denied the right to treatment. Our network of FAPs and PHCs works to overcome these challenges.
Since 1999, EMERGENCY has established a network of over 40 FAPs and PHCs throughout the country. Local colleagues (trained by EMERGENCY) work alongside our international staff to provide primary healthcare and first aid. Patients suffering from serious conditions or injuries are stabilised and subsequently transferred to EMERGENCY hospitals by an ambulance service which operates 24/7.
EMERGENCY’s presence in Afghanistan has enabled us to gain an understanding of the needs of local populations and, following specific requests made by local authorities, the scope of our activities in Afghanistan has gradually widened.
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Points of reference for local communities
We built the first FAPs in small isolated villages or mountain passes in heavily mined areas. The network has then expanded over the years – at the request of local communities who are turning to us to have a medical and health point of reference in their village – to today include more than 40 locations:
Kabul Area: Andar, Barakibarak, Chark-Logar, Gardez, Ghazni, Gurband, Laghman, Maydan Shahr, Mehtarlam, Mirbachakot, Pul I Alam, Sheikhabad, Tagab, Male orphanage and female orphanage in Kabul, Governor Jail, Investigation Jail, Transition Prison, Pol i Charki Prison.
Anabah Area: Abdara, Anabah, Anjuman, Changaram, Dara, Darband, Dasht-e-Rewat, Gulbahar, Hezarak, Kapisa, Khinch, Koklamy, Oraty, Peryan, Poli Sayad, Said Khil, Sangai Khan, Shutul.
Area of Lashkar-gah: Garmsir, Grishk, Marjia, Musa Qala, Sangin, Shoraky, and Nadali.
EMERGENCY’s First Aid Posts and Primary Health Clinics are funded by the European Union
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