MSF AUSTRALIA | AFGHANISTAN 2022

MSF responded to some of the immense health needs caused by decades of conflict and political upheaval. In Herat regional hospital, we supported the paediatric department’s triage, emergency room, intensive care unit, inpatient therapeutic feeding centre and hospitalisation ward. Among the thousands of patients admitted for emergency care, the main reasons for admission were infections of the central nervous system such as meningitis, septic shock, sepsis and pneumonia. In Kahdestan outpatient clinic, Herat province, we delivered basic healthcare for children with moderate acute malnutrition as well as pregnant and lactating women. Our teams also ran emergency responses to COVID-19 and measles outbreaks.