An MSF team arrives in the provinces affected by the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan
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Kabul, Luxembourg. September 2, 2025. –A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) team arrived today in the provinces of Nangarhar and Laghman to carry out an assessment following the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan. According to local authorities, more than 1,400 people have lost their lives and over 3,000 have been injured.
MSF visited the regional hospital of Nangarhar, in the city of Jalalabad, where more than 130 earthquake-injured patients have undergone surgery and around 600 patients have been admitted in the past 24 hours. The team also visited the provincial hospital of Laghman and distributed trauma and wound care kits to both hospitals.
The two hospitals were already working at full capacity before the earthquake, we saw many patients treated in the corridors and health workers in need of supplies. The humanitarian response needs to scale up urgently” explains Dr Fazal Hadi, MSF deputy medical coordinator.
MSF is assessing how to best contribute to the medical response.
Many people remain under the rubble according to local sources, and the destruction of infrastructure has had a significant impact on living conditions and access to clean water, creating the risk of communicable disease.
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