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Healthcare facilities are being continually dragged onto the battlefield, and patients and their doctors and nurses are sacrificed in the process. Since 2015, we have marked the loss of 23 MSF staff in nine separate events, including during the storming or bombing of hospitals. Over the last five years, our staff have lost their lives in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Central African Republic.
In the biggest single event, our trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was destroyed in a US military airstrike in October 2015. Forty-two people were killed, including 14 of our staff. In Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, in April 2020, armed groups stormed our maternity wing in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, killing 16 women and an MSF midwife.