Follow @{0}FEEDBACKEMAILPRINTEASY READSHARE KABUL, 1 July 2013 (IRIN) - It is close to midday and a group of patients wait outside the Mirwais regional hospital in southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar city. “There are no health clinics in our district so I have to come this long way for treatment. I have not met the doctor yet and have been waiting to see him for a long time,” one man, who had been waiting since sunrise and had driven four hours from neighbouring Helmand Province, told IRIN. According to health NGO Emergency, war-related admissions to their health facilities are up 42 percent in the first four months of 2013 on the same period last year, with the situation...
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