‘The world must not forget Afghanistan’, say Irish medics

Ciara Flood: 'Just because a country is not in active conflict, it doesn’t mean the population isn’t in massive need of humanitarian assistance.'

An emergency department sees an average of 1,000 patients daily, with only 340 beds on offer and where an average of 10 babies and children die each day.

Those are the conditions described by two Irish healthcare staff who have been working in one of Afganistan's busiest hospitals Boost in Hemand Province.