AFGHANISTAN | MSF UK's Vickie Hawkins on the 'absolutely huge' medical needs

Twenty-two years after first working in a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, MSF UK executive director Vickie Hawkins returned to a country that has gone full circle. Watch this powerful interview about her time in the middle of a complex humanitarian crisis, and the new challenges facing our teams.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare.

[adamgil]

It's incredible what they're doing there at boost! Thank you for this update. I am thankful you touched on how it does compare to a state-run healthcare system after explaining the work that MSF is doing showing that there is a dire need for action. I'm from the UK and am grateful that we have the NHS and am hopeful that in the future a state-run healthcare system will become standard across the world. Thank you MSF!

[chrismitchell]

One thing I can tell you about Afghanistan, being their in 2007 as a former UK Squaddie for ISAF on OP. Herrick 7 for 6 months,
It is the graveyard of empires, the he most dangerous unstable region in the middle east, and my hat comes off to those doctors and volunteers of MSF.

[guiomargil]

Mi única hija María Hernández Matas 35 años. Fue asesinada el 24 de junio 2021 en Etiopía. Cooperante de Medicos Sin Fronteras. Le dieron siete tiros mientras recogía heridos en Tigray. Francisca Hernández Matas. Investiguen su asesinato para poder descansar en paz.