Afghanistan: Training professionals to aid the war-wounded and disabled
01-12-2013 Photo gallery
Among the challenges facing Afghanistan is the lack of adequately trained staff to help war-wounded and disabled people. The ICRC, in close collaboration with the Ghazanfar Institute of Health Science and the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, has developed a training programme – the Afghan Diploma in Prosthetics and Orthotics (ADPO) – for this purpose.