Kunduz Trauma Centre

Kunduz Trauma Centre
Kunduz Trauma Centre
Médecins Sans Frontières
Geography
Location	Script error: The module returned a nil value. It is supposed to return an export table., Kunduz, Kunduz, Afghanistan
Organisation
Type	General
Services
Emergency department	Yes
Beds	140
History
Opened	2011
Closed	2015
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Afghanistan

The Kunduz Trauma Centre was a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Kunduz, Afghanistan from 2011 to 2015. On October 3, 2015, the hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship.

Before the bombing, the Kunduz Trauma Centre was the only active medical facility in the area. It served as the only trauma center in northeastern Afghanistan. In 2014, the hospital treated over 22,000 patients and performed more than 5,900 surgeries.

The hospital opened in August 2011 with 55 beds, two operating theatres, an intensive care unit, and X-ray and laboratory facilities. By late 2012, the number of beds had increased to 58. At the time of its destruction, the hospital had added a third operating theatre.

In July 2015, armed men from the Afghan National Army attempted to arrest three patients within the hospital compound. They physically assaulted staff members and threatened others at gunpoint before leaving without the patients.

Following the US airstrike in October 2015, the hospital was rendered unusable. All critical patients were referred to other providers, and all MSF staff were evacuated from Kunduz.