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    Afghanistan is one of the largest humanitarian crises in the world with more than 18 million people in need of assistance. 

    We have treated more than 40,000 people wounded by weapons in June, July and August this year and, every day, those injured by mines and explosive devices are treated by ICRC medical teams and physical rehabilitation centres.

    The International Committee of the Red Cross has worked to protect and assist those in need in Afghanistan since 1987 and remains operational across the country with our partner the Afghan Red Crescent Society.

    KEY FACTS:

    ·         Our seven rehabilitation/orthopedic facilities in Kabul, Jalalabad, Gulbar, Faizabad, Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, and Lashkar Gah assisted 80,000 patients in the first half of the year; 14,000 were women.  7,000 new patients were registered between January to June. 700 had suffered amputated limbs.

    ·         With the Norwegian Red Cross, ICRC supports 46 health facilities, mostly in rural areas.  Our medical teams have provided 497,000 consultations so far this year, including 155,000 for women.

    ·         ICRC currently has a team of over 1,800 staff across the country.

    For further information, please contact:

    Crystal Wells (English), cwells@icrc.org  or +41 796 42 8056

    Florian Seriex (French), ICRC Geneva, fseriex@icrc.org , +41 79 574 06 36

    Ewan Watson (English and French), ewatson@icrc.org , +41 79 244 64 70

    Established in 1863, the ICRC operates worldwide helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. A neutral, independent and impartial organization, its mandate stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

     SHOTLIST

    Length: 15:39

    Format: H264 HD mp4

    Copyright: ICRC access all

    On Screen Credit: ICRC written or logo attached to story

    00:00 – 00:26 Physical rehabilitation in Faizabad, August 25, 2021

    Doctor looking at patient amputated leg

    Doctor holding child patient amputated arm

    Child learning to walk with prosthetic legs

    Doctor fitting prosthetic leg on a patient

    Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg

    00:26 – 01:09 Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2019

    Wide shots of Kabul from a hill (3 shots)

    Gate of Kabul Orthopedic Center

    ICRC car in the courtyard of Kabul Orthopedic Center

    Patients in the courtyard of Kabul Orthopedic Center (3 shots)

    01:09 – 01:36 Physical rehabilitation in Herat Orthopedic Center, 2019

    Gate of Herat Orthopedic Center

    Workers manufacturing prosthetic limbs (2 shots)

    Doctor fitting prosthetic leg on a patient

    Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg

    01:36 – 02:14 Afghan football team for people with disabilities, 2016

    Children with prosthetic limbs getting ready to play football

    Men with disabilities practicing and playing football (4 shots)

    02:14 – 03:09 Afghan wheelchair basketball team playing against Italy, 2014

    Afghan wheelchair basketball team entering the court (2 shots)

    Afghan players shaking Italian players hands

    Afghan team playing against Italian team (4 shots)

    Afghan players lining up together, hands on each other’s shoulders

    03:09 – 04:16 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2013

    ICRC car driving through Kabul Orthopedic Center’s gate

    ICRC doctor looking at patients

    Patients learning to walk with a prosthetic leg

    Patient putting his prosthetic leg on

    Patient learning to walk with prosthetic legs

    Workers manufacturing prosthetic limbs (4 shots)

    Crouches

    Orthopedic shoes

    Prosthetic legs (3 shots)

    04:16 – 05:07 Mirwais Regional Hospital, 2011

    Mirwais Regional Hospital outdoor sign

    Man pushing an injured man on a bed on the road in front of the hospital

    Security guard checking on a man carrying his child on the road in front of the hospital

    Man carrying his child walking toward the entrance of the hospital

    Man carrying his child inside the hospital

    Doctor checking on a baby

    Doctors looking at a patient on his bed

    Injured man looking at his face on a mirror

    Patients lying on their beds (2 shots)

    05:07 – 05:42 Mirwais Regional Hospital, 2009

    Ambulance arriving at the door of the hospital

    Several men putting an injured man on a stretcher

    Man covered in blood lying face down in the ambulance

    No weapons sign

    Doctor checking on a patient’s bandaged leg

    Child lying on a stretcher with both bandaged hands

    ICRC doctor calming down a baby wearing an oxygen mask

    05:42 – 06:04 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2008

    Patient learning to walk with a prosthetic leg with a doctor holding his hand, on flat ground, on a pipe and on stairs (3 shots)

    06:04 – 06:27 Physical rehabilitation in Kabul Orthopedic Center, 2007

    ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) checking on a patient’s amputated leg

    ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) fitting prosthetic leg on a patient

    Patient trying to walk with his prosthetic leg

    ICRC doctor (Alberto Cairo) holding crouches for a young child walking with his prosthetic legs

    06:27 – 07:10 Message service for families of detainees in Guantanamo and Bagram, 2006

    ICRC delegate greeting an Afghan man

    ICRC delegate showing a letter to this man

    ICRC delegate and the man walking down the street

    ICRC delegate explaining the process of messaging to the man

    ICRC delegate walking with several men

    ICRC delegate giving a letter to a boy

    Man reading the letter to the boy

    Men writing on a Red Cross Message letter

    Close up of a Red Cross Message letter

    07:10 – 08:29 Landmines in Afghanistan, 2006

    Two men and a teenager walking up a hill

    The teenager showing remnants of landmines to the two men

    Close up of the remnants of landmines

    ICRC delegate showing illustrations of landmines to several men and children (3 shots)

    Group of boys walking by a mine-clearing expert

    Mine-clearing expert scanning the ground (3 shots)

    Mine-clearing expert taking out a knife and digging in the soil (2 shots)

    ICRC delegate showing illustrations of landmines to a group of men (3 shots)

    ICRC delegate giving away documentation on landmines to a group of men (2 shots)

    08:29 – 09:25 Prisoners of war in Mazar-i-Sharif, 2002

    ICRC car entering the detention yard

    ICRC delegates entering the detention hangar

    ICRC delegates talking to detainees (4 shots)

    ICRC delegate talking to a detainee (3 shot)

    09:25 – 09:56 Distribution in the Ghor province, 2001

    ICRC trucks driving in the desert

    A group of people in the desert looking at the ICRC truck arriving

    An ICRC delegate telling a truck where to stop

    Men carrying ICRC bags out of a truck

    Men putting ICRC bags on their shoulders

    Donkey carrying ICRC bags and people walking on a path in the desert

    09:56 – 10:35 Reaching war victims behind the frontline in Panjshir, 2001

    ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) putting a bag of prosthetic feet on a horse

    Men taking wheelchairs out of a truck

    Men putting wheelchairs on a horse

    ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) walking by two horses

    Wide shot of the mountain with men walking by horses

    ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) walking by a horse on a narrow path

    Man sitting on a tank

    ICRC delegate (Alberto Cairo) talking to a group of men

    10:35 – 12:02 Tools of peace, 1996

    ICRC car driving on the road

    ICRC delegate meeting with farmers (2 shots)

    Farmers rebuilding the irrigation system (3 shots)

    Men salvaging steel from an destroyed tank (2 shots)

    Man hitting a piece of steel on the road

    Men making shovels in a forge (2 shots)

    Men unloading a truck in an ICRC hangar (3 shots)

    ICRC delegate giving shovels and seeds to farmers (2 shots)

    Farmer leaving the distribution with their new tools (2 shots)

    Farmer using their new shovels

    12:02 – 12:29 Ruins of Kabul, 1995

    Destroyed buildings (4 shots)

    Man with a machine gun by the hospital

    12:29 – 13:57 ICRC Airlift Jalalabad to Kabul and evacuation of an injured child, 1994

    Military cargo plane with ICRC emblem (2 shots)

    Men loading the plane with ICRC parcels (3 shots)

    View inside the cockpit (3 shots)

    Military cargo plane with ICRC emblem

    Men transferring the parcels from the plane to a truck (3 shots)

    ICRC trucks and car driving to Kabul (2 shots)

    Man put a child to an ICRC car (2 shots)

    Child lying inside the ICRC car

    Men opening the back door of the ICRC car

    ICRC facility protected by sandbags

    Men standing in front of the ICRC facility

    13:57 – 15:39 ICRC in Afghanistan even during violent fights, 1993

    Fighters hiding and shooting (5 shots)

    Fighters standing on a tank

    ICRC car driving on a dirt road

    Man and a child in the back of the ICRC car

    Men taking the child out of the ICRC car on a stretcher

    Doctors putting a bandage on the injured hand of the child (2 shots)

    Shell on a road by ICRC cars

    Exterior view of an ICRC facility protected with sandbags, broken glass on the floor

    Exterior and interior views of broken windows (3 shots)

    Impacts of bullets on a wall and facility protected with sandbags

    ICRC trucks in front of the ICRC sub-delegation in Jalalabad

    ICRC trucks bringing aid, driving on mountain road (2 shots)

     

    B-Roll
    20210819 Afghanistan 30 Years ICRC B Roll
    On Screen Credit: ICRC or logo
    Duration : 15m 39s
    Size : 2.2 GB

    Documents
    20210908 Maurer Afghanistan EN
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