Should they ask Afghan women whether they agree to or wish to have separate treatment? I know the names of the medicines needed for different conditions, he said proudly. And this is what is needed the most, he said. When we came here there was no money left, said Umer. "For example, the U.S. and other donors funded 39 COVID-19 hospitals. Following the attack, we engaged in discussions with all parties to the conflict over a one and half year period and finalised formal commitments that allow us to gradually start to provide medical care in Kunduz. Should they always respect the will of those concerned? That money had been provided by USAID, the World Bank and various nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). While both the US and Afghan armies both conducted and released their own investigation and findings, we were not satisfied that an independent, impartial investigation could be carried out by the parties involved. Ahmadi still dreams of being a doctor, and, like the health workers he supervises, hopes the money comes through somehow. First of all, these women are afraid to go out. Federal identification number: UID CH-660.1.555.004-1, Dr. Joanne Liu, international president of MSF, The team was overwhelmed with hundreds of wounded patients, International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. There are many benefits, he added. Soon after, the Mirbacha Kot district hospital just outside of Kabul became his responsibility. Any medical need like trauma care, surgery or any kind of secondary care isn't available," says Spiegel. All of them fight with us, Ibrahimi said. Mohammed Javid Ahmadi, 22, was asked by his superiors, fresh off the fields of battle from a war that has spanned most of his life, what kind of jobs he could do. Once funded by international donations to the Afghan government, these facilities were just as suddenly cut off. The city of Kunduz becomes the frontline of fighting between government and opposition forces. Witnesses said at least two helicopters flew over the area as the assault went on, one of the first times Taliban forces have used aircraft captured from the Western-backed government in a military operation. The pharmacy is stocked only with analgesic and some antibiotics. Almost immediately, sanctions required that all outside funding stop, including funding for health care, to Afghanistan's de facto authority, the Taliban. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The Taliban-appointed supervisor of a small district hospital outside the Afghan capital has big plans for the place to the dismay of the doctors who work there. "We went to the emergency regional hospital in Kandahar [in the south of the country].
N.B. Throughout the airstrikes our teams desperately called military authorities to stop the attack. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world. On offer were positions in an array of ministries and institutions now under the Talibans power following their August takeover and the collapse of the former government. And the emergency room, packed with people, didn't have enough masks to protect everyone from COVID-19 spread, he says. (GC, Would the situation under IHL be different if the IHL of international armed conflicts were applicable? His personal view: "We need more nuanced sanctions to help the most vulnerable while continuing to pressure the Taliban to be more inclusive, particularly to women and girls." We know there are no full guarantees when working in an active conflict, but we believe that the thorough negotiation process and the commitments we have obtained allow us to move forward and work again in Kunduz, while managing the risks that come with providing trauma care in this context. Every doctor here is in a deep depression, she said. That same day saw the dismissal of the last 15 female employees of the Karte Se hospital, which may soon cease to function because male workers are not willing to take charge of the laundry. The drama in Mirbacha Kot is playing out across Afghanistans health sector since the Taliban takeover. Do such restrictions for treatment make humanitarian action impossible in these particular circumstances? The rest will follow according to the will of God, he tells them. If there was another job, nobody can pay us. Worse still, the decision whereby hospitals could treat women in emergencies, taken under Western NGO pressure by the Minister of Health, Mullawi Abbas, has been widely condemned. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the operation was typical of the complex attacks mounted by Islamic State. See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly. Dr. Elaha Ibrahimi uses her phone as a flashlight during a power cut inside the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan, in October. That means, for example, that COVID-19 surveillance figures are nearly impossible to interpret by international agencies trying to track the pandemic. A Taliban security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 25 people had been killed and more than 50 wounded in the assault but there was no officially confirmed casualty toll. Learn about our response and our work in depth on specific themes and events. KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital after two heavy explosionsat the site in central Kabul, officials said.
Armed opposition launch a takeover of Kunduz city, putting the hospital in the middle of the frontline; hospital is overwhelmed with wounded. Wages had been unpaid for months before the government collapsed. The abrupt withdrawal of international support following the Taliban victory has brought Afghanistan's fragile economy to the brink of collapse just as a severe drought has threatened millions with hunger. Build the strongest argument relying on authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and industry defining technology. Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke over the area of the blasts near the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city. "When it gets really, really cold and the snow starts falling in winter, I don't think staff will continue to show up. "There isn't even enough money to heat the patient rooms. Starting with converting shipping containers, our hospital soon moved into a building in the city centre. What can we do? On 28 September 2015, our hospital was suddenly in the middle of a quickly shifting frontline when the armed opposition launched a takeover of Kunduz city. The main hospital building came under precise and repeated airstrikes, while the surrounding buildings were left mostly untouched. I think they're hoping that eventually they'll be paid. On Aug. 15, Afghanistan was in the midst of six concurrent epidemicscontinuing polio cases, measles, malaria, dengue, cholera and COVID-19. Given this, and the lack of details and information in the lead up to, and surrounding, the airstrikes, we demanded an independent investigation on the attack. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. In a recently published document, Mdecins sans frontires (MSF) reported that 12 female patients, some of them with bullet wounds, had been turned out of one of the major hospitals, Wazir Akbar Khan, on October 19, and only two of them were later found at the Polyclinic. The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF. Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. Spiegel is director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. It had few medicines and supplies," he says. US military publicly release their own investigation into the attack. For example, some female midwives were not allowed to do home visits without a male escort, according to a September article in the medical journal BMJ's opinion blog. That means that immunization programs, aimed at finally eradicating polio in the country, as well as attempting to control the epidemics of measles and COVID-19, can begin again. Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are. Or does it affirm that the concept of grave breaches applies in non-international armed conflicts? Read stories from our staff as they carry out their work around the world.
Among the dead was Mawlawi Hamdullah Mukhlis, head of the Kabul military corps and one of the first senior Taliban commanders to enter the abandoned presidential palace when the city fell, Taliban officials said. Most lack basic services such as oxygen and the essential intravenous medications to treat COVID-19.
The most comprehensive solution to manage all your complex and ever-expanding tax and compliance needs. Recently, after a car accident, he was on the scene to provide an injection of painkillers, he added. Men and women were told to stay in separate wards. Nearly four years after the destruction of our Kunduz Trauma Centre, the need for life-saving trauma care is extremely high in Kunduz and the availability of free, quality medical care is still very low. People should be aware that today women are dying at home in Kabul because the Taliban will not allow them access to treatment. We open an outpatient clinic in Kunduz for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries, the first return to the area. Others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The reason is the U.N.'s release of $45 million in emergency funds in September. In the Ministry of Public Health, for example, no one is getting paid," he says. The same applies to their children, declared Pierre Salignon, the coordinator of the MSF mission in Kabul. Others bring sick babies. This is the biggest challenge for us. Re-starting in Kunduz is a step-by-step process as a first step, in July 2017 we opened an outpatient clinic for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries. Ahmadi, by contrast, said his dreams were finally coming true. Spiegel says that he saw a two-pronged collapse. There is no salary for staff, no food, no fuel for ambulances and other machines. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their victory over the Western-backed government in August, undermining their claim to have restored security to Afghanistan after decades of war. That means letting more money in so medicines and medical supplies get in and health care workers get paid. Starting at 2:08am on Saturday 3 October, a United States AC-130 gunship fired 211 shells on the main hospital building where patients were sleeping in their beds or being operated on in the operating theatre. This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions. When winter comes in earnest, it will get much, much worse.". They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field. hide caption. Our teams also invested heavily in local recruitment and training of medical staff. The attack from the air lasted for around one hour. What is worse, it has a mere 45 beds available for the entire female population of a city which has almost one and a half million inhabitants and, moreover, is devastated by the war and plagued by shortages of all kinds. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The security situation remains volatile and the medical needs will continue to grow. Health care workers have continued to work without salaries, without medicine for patients and with frequent power cuts. PHOTO OBTAINED BY REUTERS/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. It is now strictly forbidden for any of the towns public hospitals to treat women except in emergencies a rather theoretical and flimsy proviso. Similarly, in some of the texts used in the case studies, the facts may not always be proven;nevertheless, they have been selected because they highlight interesting IHL issues and are thus published for didactic purposes. The NGOs present in Kabul are even more sickened by the violence with which the ministerial directives are applied. So far, he says, it seems there are vast regional inconsistencies in how many female providers are allowed to deliver care and how female patients are treated. To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare. With power changing hands overnight, health workers have had to contend with a difficult adjustment. Your donations pay for millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations every year. The idea behind the sanctions is to encourage the Taliban, which took over in August, to abandon the kinds of human rights abuses that marked their previous turn in power. (, In what circumstances does the treatment of women described in the newspaper article amount to a grave breach of IHL, if the law of international armed conflicts is applicable? But nobody in Kabul, previously a very Westernized city, would have imagined that the Taliban, who took control of the Afghan capital just over a year ago, would go so far as to prevent women from receiving medical attention. Female doctors are forbidden to go to the emergency room. Are the provisions of the Conventions on grave breaches applicable in non-international armed conflicts? But Ahmadi said it was the responsibility of non-governmental organizations to resume their aid programs to finance these shortages. Kunduz hospital is destroyed. And recently a doctor at one of the large hospitals disclosed that he had not dared to treat a woman suffering from 80% burns because he would have had to remove her clothing. We have explicit commitments that our staff, patients and hospitals will not be attacked and that we can treat every person who needs medical care, no matter their ethnicity, political affiliations or which side of the conflict they are on. But the sanctions, say Spiegel and other observers, have had another devastating effect: "Much of Afghanistan's health care system has collapsed," says Spiegel. They have no pain medication for expectant mothers.
She is the author of The Fourth Trimester and co-author of A Change of Heart. Our staff own and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.
Some cases even come to solutions that clearly violate IHL.
The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.
N.B. Throughout the airstrikes our teams desperately called military authorities to stop the attack. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world. On offer were positions in an array of ministries and institutions now under the Talibans power following their August takeover and the collapse of the former government. And the emergency room, packed with people, didn't have enough masks to protect everyone from COVID-19 spread, he says. (GC, Would the situation under IHL be different if the IHL of international armed conflicts were applicable? His personal view: "We need more nuanced sanctions to help the most vulnerable while continuing to pressure the Taliban to be more inclusive, particularly to women and girls." We know there are no full guarantees when working in an active conflict, but we believe that the thorough negotiation process and the commitments we have obtained allow us to move forward and work again in Kunduz, while managing the risks that come with providing trauma care in this context. Every doctor here is in a deep depression, she said. That same day saw the dismissal of the last 15 female employees of the Karte Se hospital, which may soon cease to function because male workers are not willing to take charge of the laundry. The drama in Mirbacha Kot is playing out across Afghanistans health sector since the Taliban takeover. Do such restrictions for treatment make humanitarian action impossible in these particular circumstances? The rest will follow according to the will of God, he tells them. If there was another job, nobody can pay us. Worse still, the decision whereby hospitals could treat women in emergencies, taken under Western NGO pressure by the Minister of Health, Mullawi Abbas, has been widely condemned. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the operation was typical of the complex attacks mounted by Islamic State. See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly. Dr. Elaha Ibrahimi uses her phone as a flashlight during a power cut inside the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan, in October. That means, for example, that COVID-19 surveillance figures are nearly impossible to interpret by international agencies trying to track the pandemic. A Taliban security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least 25 people had been killed and more than 50 wounded in the assault but there was no officially confirmed casualty toll. Learn about our response and our work in depth on specific themes and events. KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital after two heavy explosionsat the site in central Kabul, officials said.
Armed opposition launch a takeover of Kunduz city, putting the hospital in the middle of the frontline; hospital is overwhelmed with wounded. Wages had been unpaid for months before the government collapsed. The abrupt withdrawal of international support following the Taliban victory has brought Afghanistan's fragile economy to the brink of collapse just as a severe drought has threatened millions with hunger. Build the strongest argument relying on authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and industry defining technology. Photographs shared by residents showed a plume of smoke over the area of the blasts near the former diplomatic zone in the Wazir Akbar Khan area of the city. "When it gets really, really cold and the snow starts falling in winter, I don't think staff will continue to show up. "There isn't even enough money to heat the patient rooms. Starting with converting shipping containers, our hospital soon moved into a building in the city centre. What can we do? On 28 September 2015, our hospital was suddenly in the middle of a quickly shifting frontline when the armed opposition launched a takeover of Kunduz city. The main hospital building came under precise and repeated airstrikes, while the surrounding buildings were left mostly untouched. I think they're hoping that eventually they'll be paid. On Aug. 15, Afghanistan was in the midst of six concurrent epidemicscontinuing polio cases, measles, malaria, dengue, cholera and COVID-19. Given this, and the lack of details and information in the lead up to, and surrounding, the airstrikes, we demanded an independent investigation on the attack. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. In a recently published document, Mdecins sans frontires (MSF) reported that 12 female patients, some of them with bullet wounds, had been turned out of one of the major hospitals, Wazir Akbar Khan, on October 19, and only two of them were later found at the Polyclinic. The Manson Unit is a London, UK-based team of medical specialists who provide medical and technical support, and conduct research for MSF. Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. Spiegel is director of the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. It had few medicines and supplies," he says. US military publicly release their own investigation into the attack. For example, some female midwives were not allowed to do home visits without a male escort, according to a September article in the medical journal BMJ's opinion blog. That means that immunization programs, aimed at finally eradicating polio in the country, as well as attempting to control the epidemics of measles and COVID-19, can begin again. Learn about our mission, our charter and principles, and who we are. Or does it affirm that the concept of grave breaches applies in non-international armed conflicts? Read stories from our staff as they carry out their work around the world.
Among the dead was Mawlawi Hamdullah Mukhlis, head of the Kabul military corps and one of the first senior Taliban commanders to enter the abandoned presidential palace when the city fell, Taliban officials said. Most lack basic services such as oxygen and the essential intravenous medications to treat COVID-19.
The most comprehensive solution to manage all your complex and ever-expanding tax and compliance needs. Recently, after a car accident, he was on the scene to provide an injection of painkillers, he added. Men and women were told to stay in separate wards. Nearly four years after the destruction of our Kunduz Trauma Centre, the need for life-saving trauma care is extremely high in Kunduz and the availability of free, quality medical care is still very low. People should be aware that today women are dying at home in Kabul because the Taliban will not allow them access to treatment. We open an outpatient clinic in Kunduz for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries, the first return to the area. Others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The reason is the U.N.'s release of $45 million in emergency funds in September. In the Ministry of Public Health, for example, no one is getting paid," he says. The same applies to their children, declared Pierre Salignon, the coordinator of the MSF mission in Kabul. Others bring sick babies. This is the biggest challenge for us. Re-starting in Kunduz is a step-by-step process as a first step, in July 2017 we opened an outpatient clinic for people with minor trauma-related wounds and injuries. Ahmadi, by contrast, said his dreams were finally coming true. Spiegel says that he saw a two-pronged collapse. There is no salary for staff, no food, no fuel for ambulances and other machines. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their victory over the Western-backed government in August, undermining their claim to have restored security to Afghanistan after decades of war. That means letting more money in so medicines and medical supplies get in and health care workers get paid. Starting at 2:08am on Saturday 3 October, a United States AC-130 gunship fired 211 shells on the main hospital building where patients were sleeping in their beds or being operated on in the operating theatre. This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions. When winter comes in earnest, it will get much, much worse.". They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field. hide caption. Our teams also invested heavily in local recruitment and training of medical staff. The attack from the air lasted for around one hour. What is worse, it has a mere 45 beds available for the entire female population of a city which has almost one and a half million inhabitants and, moreover, is devastated by the war and plagued by shortages of all kinds. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The security situation remains volatile and the medical needs will continue to grow. Health care workers have continued to work without salaries, without medicine for patients and with frequent power cuts. PHOTO OBTAINED BY REUTERS/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. It is now strictly forbidden for any of the towns public hospitals to treat women except in emergencies a rather theoretical and flimsy proviso. Similarly, in some of the texts used in the case studies, the facts may not always be proven;nevertheless, they have been selected because they highlight interesting IHL issues and are thus published for didactic purposes. The NGOs present in Kabul are even more sickened by the violence with which the ministerial directives are applied. So far, he says, it seems there are vast regional inconsistencies in how many female providers are allowed to deliver care and how female patients are treated. To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare. With power changing hands overnight, health workers have had to contend with a difficult adjustment. Your donations pay for millions of consultations, surgeries, treatments and vaccinations every year. The idea behind the sanctions is to encourage the Taliban, which took over in August, to abandon the kinds of human rights abuses that marked their previous turn in power. (, In what circumstances does the treatment of women described in the newspaper article amount to a grave breach of IHL, if the law of international armed conflicts is applicable? But nobody in Kabul, previously a very Westernized city, would have imagined that the Taliban, who took control of the Afghan capital just over a year ago, would go so far as to prevent women from receiving medical attention. Female doctors are forbidden to go to the emergency room. Are the provisions of the Conventions on grave breaches applicable in non-international armed conflicts? But Ahmadi said it was the responsibility of non-governmental organizations to resume their aid programs to finance these shortages. Kunduz hospital is destroyed. And recently a doctor at one of the large hospitals disclosed that he had not dared to treat a woman suffering from 80% burns because he would have had to remove her clothing. We have explicit commitments that our staff, patients and hospitals will not be attacked and that we can treat every person who needs medical care, no matter their ethnicity, political affiliations or which side of the conflict they are on. But the sanctions, say Spiegel and other observers, have had another devastating effect: "Much of Afghanistan's health care system has collapsed," says Spiegel. They have no pain medication for expectant mothers.
She is the author of The Fourth Trimester and co-author of A Change of Heart. Our staff own and manage MSF, making sure that we stay true to our mission and principles, through the MSF Associations.
Some cases even come to solutions that clearly violate IHL.
The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.