Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Afghanistan are continuing to provide medical care across all five of our projects in Herat, Helmand, Kandahar, Khost, and Kunduz provinces. Sustaining these health services under extreme pressures is a testament to the dedication of the some 2,300 MSF staff members working in the country.

On August 15, after months of intense fighting, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, also known as the Taliban) entered the city of Kabul as the government collapsed. The IEA has declared that the war is over and assumed control over the country. Though the surge of violence of recent weeks has given way to relative calm across much of Afghanistan, massive medical and humanitarian needs remain. “For the last week or so we are receiving over 700 patients a day in our emergency room,” said a staff member at Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province. “Some patients are coming in critical condition because they waited [to seek care] until the fighting had stopped.” Read more.