Afghanistan, Emergency: “Full intensive care in Kabul”

“In the last 24 hours in the hospital” in Kabul in Afghanistan “we saw 63 patients pass, of these only 8 were admitted because they were in extremely critical condition with gunshot wounds. Here we admit only life-threatening patients. Another 46 patients went to our emergency room, received first aid care and were then transferred to other government hospitals in the city for further treatment and diagnostic investigations. Of the 63 patients, 9 had died on arrival: among these, 4 came directly from the airport where there were shootings to try to appease the revolt and the attempted access to international flights, 3 other patients arrived from the airport with bullet wounds and are now hospitalized “. The picture of the situation from Kabul is, live from the hospital, Alberto Zanin, medical director for Emergency. “At the moment the hospital has 99 patients, we have 14 free places to deal with emergencies, but – he specifies – all the intensive and sub-intensive therapy is completely full: therefore not only many patients but also in critical conditions and we will struggle during the day to free these places “.” The situation in the city is not very busy – explains Zanin -, there are far fewer people around, even for the outpost of armed Taliban who stop for checks but at the moment there are no injured people in these checkpoints. During the night we heard numerous bursts of Kalashnikovs, people are worried, but the situation at the airport would seem better, there is less crowds and should stabilize within the day. Yesterday a German plane managed to land and take off again and this gives us hope for a future, possible reopening of the airport “.” The Taliban – continues the manager of Emergency – have taken the city but at the moment, both in our ready s it happened that in our centers, we do not observe any fury towards women. There seems to be no desire on their part to apply particular rules immediately, women are coming to work regularly, even in our staff there are no absences. “” On the street you see women as before – she says -. Even in the hospital, a large part of the staff is female, they continue to come to work, many also hold important roles, in the last year we have hired girls to fill positions of anesthetists in the operating room. There are no particular variations in women’s clothing, now the people of our staff prefer to wear the traditional dress than before, but not because this comes from a request from the new government, simply as a precaution “.