Kabul, six injured all adult men after an explosion in the Afghan capital, Emergency: “70% of patients have suffered war injuries”

ROMA – They were transported to the Surgical Center for War Victims in EMERGENCY in Kabul 6 injured in the explosion that occurred on the afternoon of Monday 2 September, at 4pm (local time, 1.30pm Italian time) in the neighborhood PD 6 of the capital. “These were six adult men; two had to undergo major surgeries such as laparotomies and chest tubes,” explains Dejan Panic, program director of EMERGENCY in Afghanistan – the others have shrapnel wounds, fractures and soft tissue injuries.”

Three years since the return of the Taliban. It has been three years since international forces left Afghanistan on August 15, 2021 and the country returned to the control of the Taliban government. And while it seems that the international community and the media are disinterested in this crisis, EMERGENCY continues to work in the country. In these three years, from the observatory of its three hospitals and its 40 first aid posts and clinics scattered throughout the country, the NGO has seen Afghanistan sink into an economic crisis that has led to 23.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. Among these, 12.4 million are in conditions of food insecurity and almost half of the population – about 48% – lives below the poverty line.

The NGO’s 30 years of work. EMERGENCYwhich in 2024 celebrates 30 years of humanitarian activity, has been present in Afghanistan since 1999 with two Surgical Centers in Kabul and Lashkar-gah, a Surgical and Pediatric Center and a Maternity Center in Anabah, in the Panshir Valley, and a network of 40 first aid posts and primary health centers. In the first six months of 2024, over 67 thousand outpatient visits were carried out in the Organization’s surgical centers in Kabul, Lashkar-gah and Anabah; over 7 thousand surgical operations. Over 3,500 babies were born in the Anabah Maternity Center (Panshir).