As casualties soar, Afghanistan struggles to treat civilians maimed by conflict

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Staff at the ICRC's orthopaedic centre make artificial limbs. Most of the employees are amputees themselves; they started as patients before training for a job helping others with disabilities...

Asia

Afghanistan

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Staff at the ICRC's orthopaedic centre make artificial limbs. Most of the employees are amputees themselves; they started as patients before training for a job helping others with disabilities...

Conflict

Health

A woman works on a prosthetic limb.

The state health system is itself a casualty of decades-long conflict, leaving aid groups to fill gaps in care.

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