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Dr. Kathleen Thomas, an intensive care doctor from Australia,...
Reportage by Getty Images TumblrDr. Kathleen Thomas, an intensive care doctor from Australia, worked in the Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Trauma Center in Kunduz, Afghanistan, from May 2015 until it was destroyed by US airstrikes on October 3. In a blog post today, Dr. Thomas writes about the events preceding the attacks and contemplates what was lost with the hospital’s destruction:
I can’t help but think that every day the hospital is a burnt out shell is a day that could have seen dozens of lives saved and hundreds of patients treated. What will they all do — the survivors and future injured patients of Kunduz? What on earth will they do?
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Above, the burnt remains of the MSF trauma center in Kunduz on October 14, 2015. Photographer Victor J. Blue visited the facility a week after the attack. See more of his images from Kunduz on Getty Images.
