listening with a few more or less
everybody didn't mind bomb by rocket
everything is going back somebody
started any surveillance you know what
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so VG's so the black smoke you see is we
think from a suicide bomber who blew
himself up outside the gates of the
Indian intelligence Oh studs you can
hear now RPGs probably fired from the
Afghan army towards the attackers
they're saying that fired Pakistanis
still there they're saying that eight
attackers got inside the NDS HQ here and
the six that were killed and two of them
are still alive until a minute ago
they're now saying it's finished and
that they'll take us in to see if they
killed them for the West the war may be
all but over in Afghanistan but for
those being left behind it's entering
its deadliest phase so far and for
journalists access to that war is
getting harder - still yes after hours
of pounding the building with rockets
Afghan commandos went room to room
finishing off any insurgents who were
still alive
stop recording you know they're not
allowed missions ministers defense
minister wins here everyone so the
withdrawal of foreign combat troops is
almost complete now but they're not
leaving behind the country which is safe
and secure where the Taliban have been
beaten or even slowed down that's
Alabama taking more and more territory
all the time and carrying out bigger and
bolder attacks all the time and while we
seem to be burying our heads in the sand
about what's happening here the failure
in Afghanistan is meaning that the
people here are paying a higher and
higher price I've been covering the war
in Afghanistan for seven years even with
American and British troops alongside
them the Afghan national security forces
often fired indiscriminately now
desperately trying to hold off massed
Taliban attacks alone the fighting is
spiraling out of control increasingly
innocent civilians are caught between
those Afghan forces and the Taliban
neither of whom seem to care about who
their bullets and rockets might hit we
traveled to Helmand the most violent
province in Afghanistan
more troops and resources were sent here
than anywhere else in the country and
yet there are only two hospitals in the
entire province one of them is run by a
foreign charity named emergency
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the hospital is operating at full
capacity
I took a tour of the hospital with
Dimitra Gianna Koppel ooh a Greek
volunteer and long-serving medical
coordinator and how often a new patients
arriving on a bad day 30 patients for
them 30 per day on a bad day on a bad
days can you talk about the numbers of
patients have been admitted over the
last three years the last three years
we've seen a major increase in 2013 2013
had 2,100 admissions and that was in the
70 percent increase on the previous year
2014 that is increasing as well we had
around 1,700 surgical admissions and we
are on half a year if people keep
getting killed and injured at this rate
2014 we have seen a 50% increase in
civilian casualties on the previous year
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genuinely but we have moved the fire
machine into an outside building and we
made the word and this was the playroom
and we have made this award this one but
you're over capacity now yeah
we are almost 30 beds over 30 beds but
every room that was serving some other
function is now yes award but if it
keeps on getting worse
can you can you manage when we've come
very close to being in full capacity
then we start to narrow the criteria to
life-saving brain injury and thoracic
and abdominal and Vascular once you've
done that and again you're on full
capacity but the numbers are still going
up yes
it makes me crazy since we will not be
able to take somebody for bags we'll do
anything when it's done huh beginning of
a solid kid in your pajamas the injuries
from fighting between the Afghan army in
the Taliban are they increasing because
they you know they fire quite wildly
we've seen a lot of like collateral
injuries we have an increase in what we
call my injury and shell injury they are
from explosive devices IEDs and they're
very very vicious there is an an
increase of bilateral amputations of
very high amputations traumatic
amputations that are arriving when
someone steps on idea the damage is
getting worse it's it's double or triple
amputations rather than double of people
and a lot of children as well
Western forces aren't leaving behind the
stable country with the government able
to protect its own people
according to the UN at least 295
children were killed and seven hundred
and seventy-six injured in the first six
months of this year alone he wants to
show you his leg
did you see anything or it just looked
like the normal ground
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you know one
if somebody steps on an ID they have to
get treated very very quickly
you give you some time they are very
exclusively burn you while also mangling
here this burning controls the bleeding
in a in a strange way this gives you
time this is our pediatric female ward
shells bullets fazil just kids caught in
the crossfire between my classes you've
got two kids here who have been shot in
the head in the last few days where did
it enter here and he said there have
been more kids with bullet injuries to
the head yes in these days five in the
last few days the bullets in that stream
yes one died he's a bullet to the head
dispenser
this guy sure injury to the skull
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they go come in fairly recently so this
is all fighting between the Taliban and
the Afghan security forces
well the Afghan security forces and the
Afghan security forces well we were
there one of the children who'd been
shot in the head woke up
prior to the Michigan children
how about it
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Dimitra showed us an entire family had
been hit the women asked to be covered
before we came in she lost one of her
children and yes you're another one in
the ambulance guys coming she lost both
in the ambulance coming and one she left
dead behind more happen it was a blast
in their house
sure they say RPG no I don't know
exactly what that means
but something accidentally landed to
them they are a family
but the whole families can feel hopeful
in singing Yes Minister
this is Bibi she's 16 she's doing very
well she's also discharged in the next
few days
but she got bilateral amputation but at
62 those were three legs most of the
injuries we saw were bullet or shell
injuries so for the first time in years
injuries from crossfire have gone up and
are the main cause of injury and death
among Afghans because the Taliban and
Afghans fight so wildly each other
is this a normal day for you
moralists and you performed surgery
today on a young girl we had to remove
lots of shrapnel he's described what you
had to do today they under the BBC is
six-year-old Shira supportable seriously
duty to the abdomen and also inside of
the brain as well
we operated him here was multiple
operation of the small bowel through in
true in stomach was also perforated
which we repaired and skull was but
loosen up do you ever think you know
this is your country and you're seeing
the situation getting worse how does
that make you feel just on a personal
level since I'm far from political paint
I cannot tell you why is getting worse
most of the day we are just going to
hospital and house maybe for many many
days we will not change the road because
a lot of over here every night there is
really a lot of fighting tonight the
Taliban score three checkpoints and the
next night the army managed to drive
them and if you spoke to people in
Europe and in America especially the
politicians they would say Taliban have
been pushed backwards the Afghan
security forces are taking over and some
of them even saying you know we've we've
achieved our goals
mission accomplished well somebody's
targeting civilians is all I can say to
them
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because of the worst insecurity
situation the foreign emergency staff
worked behind the walls of the hospital
and rest behind the walls of their
communal house the only time they
actually see daily life in Afghanistan
is during the short journey between the
two places in the last two three months
it was a disaster every day there is
mine bomb by rocket explosion everything
is going back
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