| | Afghanistan: ICRC opens new physical rehabilitation centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The new facility, which began operation on 14 August in Faizabad, capital of the northern province of Badakhshan, will help landmine victims and other disabled people by providing physiotherapy, rehabilitation, artificial limbs and orthopaedic appliances free of charge. |
 | | "Patients from the Faizabad area used to travel to the ICRC centre in Mazar-i-Sharif, but when the front lines shifted north they could no longer get there and were left without treatment." The ICRC started flying patients from Faizabad to Kabul in 1995. |
 | | There are currently some 2,000 potential patients in and around Faizabad, but the ICRC centre expects to receive additional wounded civilians and soldiers coming from front-line areas, where there is a constant risk of injury from landmines and unexploded ordnance. |
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