MSF response to earthquake in eastern Afghanistan comes to a close

On 28 July 2022, the final Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff left Paktika province, Afghanistan, after an emergency earthquake intervention. Over the course of 5 weeks greater than 1,380 sufferers had been handled within the MSF non permanent clinic in Bermal, at first presenting with trauma accidents associated to the earthquake and later with main healthcare wants. Medical care in Bermal is scarce, and so trauma care in these first days of the disaster was invaluable.

Through the night time of 21 and 22 June, a 5.9 magnitude earthquake shook Khost and Paktika provinces within the east of Afghanistan. Spera District (Khost province), Gayan (Paktika province) and Bermal (Paktika province) had been probably the most affected.

The next day, 23 June, MSF despatched two emergency response groups, one from Kabul and one from Khost, to evaluate what medical care was accessible within the space. Because the groups stopped to evaluate completely different areas, they donated tents and medical gear earlier than travelling on to their closing vacation spot, hard-to-reach Bermal.