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The ICRC in Afghanistan

Gazergah, Herat, Afghanistan. Children fill jerrycans at one of the six taps that serve the whole community.

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The ICRC protects detainees and helps them maintain contact with their families; monitors the conduct of hostilities and acts to prevent IHL violations; assists the wounded and disabled; supports hospital care; improves water and sanitation services; promotes IHL; and supports the Afghan Red Crescent. Read full overview

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From January to March 2013, the ICRC:
  • visited 1,100 detainees, 260 of them for the first time, and helped eight ex-detainees return home;
  • registered 2,160 new patients, including 291 amputees, at the seven ICRC physical rehabilitation centres;
  • distributed one-month food rations and household items to more than 755 families displaced by conflict and natural disaster;
  • carried out hygiene-promotion sessions for guards and detainees in detention places in Herat and Kandahar, through which almost 2,600 people will benefit;
  • briefed nearly 7,750 arms bearers, members of civil society, and beneficiaries of ICRC programmes on the mandate and work of the ICRC.
During the same period, Mirwais and Sheberghan Hospitals admitted 7,785 inpatients and held 41,790 outpatient consultations between them. In total, the two hospitals carried out 2,240 operations

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