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The ICRC is responding to the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan by providing health care, supporting health care infrastructure, rehabilitation support, assisting people to establish livelihoods and incomes, helping families who have been separated reconnect, improving access to clean water, sanitation and energy, together with the Afghan Red Crescent, and other Movement partners.
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In numbers
In 2023
- 1,202,612Patients, mostly women and children, received primary health care at 47 health facilities of the Afghan Red Crescent Society supported by the ICRC
- 10,446Households received multipurpose cash assistance to meet their basic needs
- 18,198New patients registered, including 1,197 amputees
- 133,482Physiotherapy sessions held
- 49Visits made to 19 places of detention
- 213Cases of missing people were solved and their whereabouts were ascertained
- 6Human remains were retrieved, transferred and returned to their families with the Afghan Red Crescent Society's support under our Human Remains Transfer Programme (HRTP)
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