Friend: Samiullah, 12, was shot in the head during an outbreak of violence in the city of Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan, earlier this year. His worried family was forced to sneak through back gardens, cross a river, and travel by motorbike in an attempt to reach emergency medical care at Boost hospital, in Helmand province, which is run by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

MSF has worked in Afghanistan since 1980 and runs projects in five provinces. We know that health needs don’t disappear during times of conflict, but care can be harder to reach, sometimes with tragic results.

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A trip to the hospital that would normally have taken five minutes took more than two hours as Samiullah’s family tried to avoid fighting on the main route. Thankfully they arrived in time, and Samiullah had an operation to remove small bullet fragments and recovered. MSF has supported Boost hospital, which serves more than 1.3 million people, since 2009 and has remained there in the face of violent conflict.

During the rapid transfer of power to the Taliban in August, MSF staff in Boost hospital continued working through the fighting even as rockets exploded just outside the facility. Because we believe everyone deserves quality health care, no matter where they are.

Please make a generous donation to MSF—now DOUBLED, thanks to our Giving Tuesday Match—to help our teams in Afghanistan, and those in more than 70 other countries, continue their lifesaving work.

Thank you, Friend.

Vera Eastman
Doctors Without Borders

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