The night was shaken by the mountains of Afghanistan .. Bleeding of the earthquake’s tragedy has not yet ended

Before midnight last Sunday, a strong earthquake of 6.0 East Afghanistan woke up in the mountainous valleys, leaving behind a new humanitarian catastrophe in a country exhausted by wars and natural disasters.
Dr. Abdul Metin Sahak, head of the local emergency office at the World Health Organization, lost his awareness for a moment with the first tremor, then got up with his family to start a new race against death. He says: “I immediately thought about Hrat, and I knew that this time the effect would be tremendous as well.” From the first moment, the WhatsApp medical groups turned into emergency operations rooms, and the reports flowing from the state of Connar were frightening: hundreds of injuries, collapsed clay houses, and entire families buried under the rubble. Medicines through the air to the Nurgl area, the earthquake center, before the situation deteriorated more with the seasonal rains that paralyzed the roads and disrupted the ambulance movement. But the scale of the destruction exceeded all expectations: 2200 dead, 3640 wounded, and 6700 destroyed homes after only five days. “We saw bodies in the streets, and two survivors screaming for their children. Sixini man lost 22 members of his thirty family. I could not look at his eyes.” Although the Taliban’s restrictions on the work of women, the earthquake formed a exceptional moment to break the barriers; As female doctors and midwives joined the rescue teams, in a country that was already suffering from the bleeding of qualified medical cadres. On his notebook, he recorded numbers that reflect the size of the task: 46 tons of medical supplies, 15 thousand venous liquid packages, and 800 patients who were transferred to Jalalabad and Asadabad hospitals, but the numbers did not obscure pain stories. Among them is a woman with fractures and trauma in the head that did not stop chanting: “Where is my child?” Before it becomes clear that she lost all her family. Or Najitan sat under a hot sun after they lost 13 individuals from their family at once. As for Sahak, there is no longer room for hesitation. Despite the pleas of his old mother to stop going to the afflicted areas, his answer was: “Please go there and support people” – and this time she was not an objection but rather an unavoidable duty. (U)