The day started on a sad note – a member of staff here was a close friend of a local man whose brother’s family have all just been murdered. Everybody around them feels very traumatised and upset. A few of us talked about it first thing this morning, and we were all affected by the [...]
Yousuf has arranged for us to go and meet the Chancellor of Kabul Medical University today, and we were planning to go this afternoon – but the Chancellor has to go to an urgent meeting at the Ministry of Health, so we have been asked to go at 0830. We wonder if the urgent meeting [...]
The days starts at 7.30 here – meet for a cup of tea before being driven off the hospital for a 8 am briefing. The briefing was for the whole IMC team, and about eight were there for it this morning: surrounded by flipcharts, to-do lists, everybody with at least one laptop on their lap. [...]
Inside IMH, antique tables with modern PCs , and an elegant sweeping wooden staircase with a huge satellite dish on the roof gave a hectic workaday feel in a setting of well-faded grandeur. The basement bunker was my first appointment, with the recently-arrived head of country security plus our own house’s security guard. I was [...]