Afghanistan: Medical Care Suspended in Khost After Attack on Doctors Without Borders Hospital

by Gary Kopycinski on April 17, 2012

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KABUL–(ENEWSPF)–APRIL 17, 2012—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today suspended medical activities in its recently opened maternity hospital in Khost Province in eastern Afghanistan, after an explosion inside the hospital compound this morning. Seven people were injured in the blast, including one child.