Afghanistan: MSF withdraws from Dasht-e-Barchi following attack on patients and staff

June 15, 2020

Kabul – 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...

Afghanistan: “As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”

June 10, 2020

Zahra 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...

Afghanistan: Fifteen mothers confirmed killed in Kabul maternity wing attack

June 3, 2020

In 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,...

Afghanistan: “They came to kill the mothers” in Kabul maternity hospital attack

May 14, 2020

In 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...

Afghanistan: Revolting attack on maternity ward kills pregnant women and babies

May 13, 2020

KABUL – 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...

Afghanistan

February 13, 2019

MSF 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...