Analysing the unthinkable – one year after the Dasht-e-Barchi attack in Afghanistan
May 12, 2021On 12 May 2020, the maternity ward of the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, was attacked. Twenty-four people were killed according to official sources. On 15 June, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)/Doctors Without Borders announced the decision to withdraw from the hospital. In parallel,...
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Afghanistan: Keeping an eye on COVID-19 cases in Herat
February 12, 2021Due to an increase in the number of people with severe COVID-19 in Herat, western Afghanistan, the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) COVID-19 treatment centre in Gazer Ga reopened on 2 December 2020. The centre reopened to support the Ministry of Public...
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Afghanistan: Patients face persistent insecurity amid “peace process”
December 18, 2020The year 2020 has been considered a historic one for Afghanistan. In February, 20 years since the US-led invasion, the US signed a deal with the Islamic Emirate – otherwise known as the Taliban – to pave the way for a...
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Afghanistan: MSF withdraws from Dasht-e-Barchi following attack on patients and staff
June 15, 2020Kabul – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has announced today its decision to end activities and withdraw from Dasht-e-Barchi in Kabul, following the brutal attack of 12 May in which 16 mothers were systematically shot dead. An MSF midwife...
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Afghanistan: “As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”
June 10, 2020Zahra Koochizad is the MSF midwife supervisor in the MSF maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was working on the maternity ward on 12 May 2020, the day of an attack by unknown assailants who killed 15 mothers and...
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Afghanistan: Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack
June 3, 2020In the three weeks since a vicious attack on the Médecins Sans Frontiéres (MSF)-run maternity wing at Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, assessments have revealed that 15 mothers were killed in the hospital. Five of these women were in labour and were minutes,...
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Afghanistan: “They came to kill the mothers” in Kabul maternity hospital attack
May 14, 2020In the days following the attack on the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-supported Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, it has become clear that what happened on 12 May was a deliberate assault on a maternity hospital with the purpose of killing mothers in cold...
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Afghanistan: Revolting attack on maternity ward kills pregnant women and babies
May 13, 2020KABUL – Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is devastated after yesterday’s sickening attack on pregnant women, mothers and their babies at our maternity ward in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. While pregnant women and babies, in one of life’s most...
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Afghanistan
February 13, 2019MSF in South Asia: Projects in South Asia Access campaign Connect with us What we do MSF focuses on emergency, paediatric, and maternal healthcare in Afghanistan, which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.We work in...
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