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Afghanistan
The ICRC is responding to the Afghanistan war by helping wounded and disabled people, supporting hospitals, making prison visits and helping detainees maintain contact with their families, monitoring the conduct of hostilities and preventing IHL violations, improving water and sanitation, promoting IHL and supporting the Afghan Red Crescent.
In numbers
From January to June 2021
- 49,500Wounded patients treated at 416 ICRC-supported health facilities, including those run by ARCS
- 550People trained in 42 first-aid sessions across the country
- 79,953Patients assisted in the seven ICRC-supported physical rehabilitation centres
- 129,654Physiotherapy sessions held
- 26,927Detainees received hygiene items in 34 places of detention
- 4,543Detainees received access to health services
- 49,650People, including those living in Lashkar Gah and Jalalabad city, given improved access to water
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