Reference :
V-F-CR-F-01025-B
Date :
04/2009
Title :
ICRC opens surgical hospital for weapon-wounded in North-West Pakistan
Duration :
00:18:00
Editor :
unknown
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
reserved users only
Production company :
ICRC
ICRC producer :
POWELL, Janet
Description :
Editing intended for the Australian and New Zealand public.
In recent months the armed conflict in the north of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province has forced many people to flee their homes. Since the upturn in fighting between the authorities and armed groups in Bajaur Agency, North West Pakistan in August last year, the number of patients suffering bomb blast, shrapnel and bullet wounds has increased by over a third. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is extremely concerned that civilians are bearing the brunt of the conflict, with many being killed, maimed and deprived of adequate medical treatment because of fighting and insecurity. The ICRC Surgical Hospital for Weapon Wounded patients, a 60 bed, tented field hospital, will be formally opened in Peshawar, north-west Pakistan on 29 April.
English title :
ICRC opens surgical hospital for weapon-wounded in North-West Pakistan
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