[Slide Show] Trauma Care where there was none in Northern Afghanistan

Before the opening of the Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) surgical hospital in the province of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, people in the region need serious injuries had two choices. They made the long and dangerous journey to Kabul or Pakistan, or they attended an expensive private clinic. As a result, few patients accept the trauma care they needed.
In less than one period, the MSF trauma center, equipped with a pinch of rooms, two operating rooms and intensive attention unit, more than 3,700 patients found.Most are victims of the so-called “general trauma” traffic accidents, communal violence, civil war or Schusswunden.Alle Photos by Michael Goldfarb
* All the names of patients to date alone altered.
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A physical therapist helps doctors without borders * Suleiman, a 15-year-old man in the intensive care unit. He underwent an emergency laparotomy in the previous night after suffering a closed intestinal obstruction due to a traumatic injury.
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A young fille goes through the early morning mist in front of the perimeter of the hospital.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
The entrance to the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz.
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A man and a boy injured outside the sorting station to wait.
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* Abdallah, 12 subjects, exercises in a specially equipped space of physical therapy. Noble gas suffered a severe broken leg in a car accident and receives regular Physiotherapie.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
* Abdullah shows his artistic work.Afghanistan 2012 © Archangel Goldfarb / MSF
MSF surgeon Martin John Jarmin III interacts with a patient during rounds.
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A young Afghan men with other types of furniture, before an emergency operation transferred to the surgical spirit. The man had a gunshot injury to the lower chest gelitten.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
* Ali, 11, sits in his furniture in the stationary one. He found a discarded detonator on the road, which exploded, severely wounded in the face and hands. His brother was unseen in the explosion.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
* Ahmed, 31, lies in his bed hospice as a relative looks connected. A farmer in Kunduz, suffered severe abdominal and leg injuries after Ahmed location away from a bomb hidden in his Gebiet.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
Dr. Juan Robinson, an orthopedic surgeon to check a patient’s x-ray with other medical staff in the ward in the line department.
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Munir *, 8, who broke his legs in a fall, playing in his hospital room bed.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
At the end of the day, Dr. Martin John Jarmin III (left) and anesthesiologists Katrine Finsnes from a patient in the intensive care unit to be überprüfen.Afghanistan 2012 © Michael Goldfarb / MSF
The site of the MSF hospital in Kunduz astatine dusk. The rest home from full-container buildings and renovated sections of a 50-year-old former hospital provides urgent surgical treatment and post treatment for people who have injuries, each suffered life-threatening. It is the only trauma center of its kind in the region.