Indira_Gandhi_Children's_Hospital

Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital

Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital

Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan

Indira Gandhi Children's hospital (IGICH) located in Kabul is a Children's hospital of Afghanistan.[2] It was founded in 1969 with funding from the government of India.[3] 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.[4] In 2004, IGICH started the first cerebral palsy center in Afghanistan.[5][6][7] It also has an artificial limb center opened with help of Indian government which can fit up to 1000 people with jaipur feet.[8]

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Some Indian physicians working at this hospital died in the February 2010 Kabul attack conducted by Taliban.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    South Asia Politics, Volume 1; Volume 4. p. 30.
  2. [2]
    Families find little comfort at Afghan children's hospital, CNN, 2009-03-19
  3. [3]
    "Database". www.afghan-bios.info. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  4. [4]
    "One year on from the Taliban takeover, crisis grips Afghanistan's biggest children's hospital". Sky News. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  5. [5]
    "Press Release : Inauguration of Diagnostic Centre at IGICH, Kabul". eoi.gov.in. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
  6. [6]
    Pictures from ISAF: The Indira Gandhi hospital Archived 24 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)
  7. [7]
    First cerebral palsy centre for Afghan children opens in Kabul, International Committee of the Red Cross, 2004-05-21
  8. [8]
    A Ticket On The Caravan To Kabul, Outlook (magazine), 2002-01-28
  9. [9]
    Guesthouses Used by Foreigners in Kabul Hit in Deadly Attacks, The New York Times, 2010-02-26


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