Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital
Indira Gandhi Children's hospital (IGICH) located in Kabul is a Children's hospital of Afghanistan. It was founded in 1969 with funding from the government of India. It was renamed in honor of Indira Gandhi in 1975. It has 400 beds, although the hospital sometimes has to assign more than one child per bed due to high demand. In 2004, IGICH started the first cerebral palsy center in Afghanistan. It also has an artificial limb center opened with help of Indian government which can fit up to 1000 people with jaipur feet.
Some Indian physicians working at this hospital died in the February 2010 Kabul attack conducted by Taliban.
References
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- ^ Pictures from ISAF: The Indira Gandhi hospital Archived 24 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
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- ^ A Ticket On The Caravan To Kabul, Outlook (magazine), 2002-01-28
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