Afghanistan: The Healers

KABUL: Almost 180,000 patients, nearly 200,000 artificial limbs. For 30 years, orthopaedic centres run by the International Committee of the Red Cross have provided a lifeline for Afghanistan’s physically disabled – people crippled by air raids, accidents, or through congenital illness. 

Many of the staff have been themselves treated at the centers. But no matter how many limbs they make, the patients keep coming. We meet the remarkable medics risking their lives to help disabled people in war-torn Afghanistan.