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Today, it’s been five years exactly since an attack from a US military aircraft destroyed the @MSF hospital in #Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing at least 42 people.
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https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
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https://www.msf.org/kunduz-hospital-attack-depth
Many of the people who were killed were patients, who had come to the hospital for vital medical care.
14 of them were MSF staff.
5 years on, the @MSF team in Afghanistan has been working on a new hospital in Kunduz.
Things are still in an early phase, but when completed, it will once again bring desperately needed medical care to a community that has lived through years of conflict.
Today, we mourn those who died, but we also celebrate the incredible, life-saving work done by @MSF teams in Kunduz before the hospital was destroyed.
Here are just a few posts written by staff who worked there over the years.
ICU, pharmacy, all the bricks and mortar of a hospital have to be built by someone. Logistician Angel was part of the construction team that worked on #Kunduz trauma centre. https://msf.me/3cRX1oj
Tomas, a surgeon, was posted several times in Kunduz. In this post, a patient injured by an IED is rushed to the operating theatre. https://msf.me/3jgtXJA
"Danger doesn’t always come from the shrapnel of a bomb" wrote Stefan, a doctor, as he and the team worked to treat the huge variety of injured patients on the ward https://msf.me/3l2cbu8
Finally, here’s Faizulla, Patient Records Manager, remembering the terrifying night of the attack itself. https://msf.me/3jmBu9I
While many of these posts were written by our international staff, we want to be clear that the bulk of the work at Kunduz, and at all MSF projects, was done by a dedicated team of locally hired staff.
We’d like to end this thread by remembering the @MSF colleagues who died, needlessly, in the bombing of #kunduz.
Today we say their names.
Today we say their names.
Abdul Maqsood, aged 22, worked as a patient information focal point.
Abdul Nasir, 22, was a hospital cleaner, a vital role for preventing infection that could threaten lives
Friendly and easy going, Abdul Salam, 29, was a nurse in the operating theatre.
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Abdul Nasir, 22, was a hospital cleaner, a vital role for preventing infection that could threaten lives
Friendly and easy going, Abdul Salam, 29, was a nurse in the operating theatre.
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Dr Abdul Satar Zaheer, 47, was the Deputy Medical Director at the Kunduz Trauma Centre.
Dr Aminullah Bajawri was a 32-year-old father and emergency room doctor.
28 year old nurse Lal Mohammad was a mentor to the younger nurses.
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Dr Aminullah Bajawri was a 32-year-old father and emergency room doctor.
28 year old nurse Lal Mohammad was a mentor to the younger nurses.
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Dr Mohammad Ehsan Osmani was a young intensive care doctor with extraordinary enthusiasm and dedication to his patients.
Mohibullah, 38, was a dedicated father and an experienced emergency room nurse.
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Mohibullah, 38, was a dedicated father and an experienced emergency room nurse.
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Najibullah Najibullah, 27, was a father who worked for 5 years as a cleaner in the emergency room.
Intensive care nurse Naseer Ahmad, 23, first worked with MSF in 2014.
Shafiqullah, 39, worked as a guard, ensuring the security of patients and staff.
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Intensive care nurse Naseer Ahmad, 23, first worked with MSF in 2014.
Shafiqullah, 39, worked as a guard, ensuring the security of patients and staff.
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Tahseel Tahseel, 35, a father and much loved and valued member of the pharmacy team.
Zabiullah, 29, was married and worked as a hospital guard.
Intensive care nurse Ziaurahman, 23, had been working for MSF since 2013.
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Zabiullah, 29, was married and worked as a hospital guard.
Intensive care nurse Ziaurahman, 23, had been working for MSF since 2013.
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Never forgotten.
Medical facilities are #NotATarget.
Medical staff are #NotATarget.
Patients are #NotATarget.
Even war has rules.
#Kunduz
Medical facilities are #NotATarget.
Medical staff are #NotATarget.
Patients are #NotATarget.
Even war has rules.
#Kunduz
