Dr. Abdul Matin Sugak arrived at the hospital in the province of Kunar to control the provision of emergency medical care to people affected by the earthquake. The night shuddered by the mountains: the story of the doctor in the advanced in Afghanistan Fabrice Robin Humanitarian assistance the first underground impetus thrown Dr. Abdul Matina Sahaka from bed. After the second, he held out his hand to the phone. Shortly before midnight on Sunday, mountain valleys in the east of Afghanistan shook an earthquake with a capacity of six points on the Richter scale, followed by many repeated shocks. Dr. Sahak’s house in Jalalabad was about 50 kilometers from the epicenter. When he ran out of the bedroom with his wife, their eight children were already in the corridor. “I immediately thought about Herat,” says the doctor, recalling the earthquake that destroyed the country’s Western province in 2023. -I realized that the consequences here will also be significant. ” Clay houses collapse in seconds, roads disappear under the rubble, entire families die in a dream … & nbsp; The first calls Dr. Sakhak heads the local office of the World Health Organization (WHO), his specialization – renewing on emergency situations. After the first shocks, he immediately turned to the application in WhatsApp, connecting hospitals, small clinics and humanitarian organizations of the region. & Amp; NBSP; The first news came from Assadbad, the capital of the neighboring province of Kunar, which suffered the most. The local hospital carefully reported possible victims. & Amp; nbsp; by one in the morning, calls acquired a desperate character: “We receive many wounded from different areas, the situation is difficult. If possible, send help! ”& Amp; nbsp; Saakk gathered a WHO team in a warehouse in Jalalabad. When they left, it was raining – the Mussonov season began, complicating the landing of helicopters and the operation of ambulance machines. & Amp; NBSP; help began to go through a debugged chain: the truck with medicines went to the WHO warehouse, then to the Jalalabad airport, from where the helicopter delivered people and cargo to the epicenter of the earthquake. “Fortunately, we quickly reached the very affected area,” says the doctor. & Amp; nbsp; in the epicenter initially the team consisted of only four people. For several hours, they attracted partners from two NGOs, eventually gathering 18 doctors, nurses and pharmacists. On the first day of the WHO, it was possible to deliver 23 tons of medicines to the Nurgal area. & Amp; nbsp; meanwhile, the number of victims grew rapidly. “They said that 500, maybe 600 people died. Thousands of houses are injured, ”recalls Saakk. & Amp; nbsp; after five days, official data turned out to be much worse: more than 2200 dead, 3640 wounded and 6700 destroyed houses. & Amp; nbsp; “ where is my where mine is my Child ?! ”When Sahak and his team arrived in Nurgal, the streets littered with the bodies of the dead appeared to their eyes. Volunteers from neighboring areas scooped up blockages and pulled out the victims from the ruins. & Amp; NBSP; a 60-year-old local resident named Mohammad killed 22 relatives-most of the family of 30 people. “It was unbearable to see all this,” the doctor admits. & Amp; nbsp; in a dilapidated local clinic, patients were treated under awnings. Sugak remembered a woman with fractures of the pelvis, ribs and a severe head injury. She could not breathe and only repeated: “Where is my child ?! Bring me my child! ” But all her relatives died. & Amp; nbsp; women on the forefront earthquake for the duration of the Sterl in Patriarchal Afghanistan strict gender barriers. Women-doctors and midwives worked along with men. & Amp; nbsp; after 2021, when the Taliban came to power in the country, most women specialists left Afghanistan. The daughter of Sahaka, who also studied at the doctor, is now sitting at home without any prospects. & Amp; nbsp; disasters’ statistics closer to the end of the week 46 tons of medicines were delivered to the injured areas, including more than 15 thousand bottles of infusion solutions. 17 brigades followed the epidemic atmosphere in the region. More than 800 heavy patients were sent to Jalalabad and Assadbad hospitals. WHO requested four million dollars to expand assistance. & Amp; NBSP; 13 relatives were killed by one elderly woman and her daughter. “The two of them survived, but now they were completely alone,” the doctor recalls. & Amp; nbsp; returning home, Saakk told about this to his family, and everyone burst into tears. The doctor’s 85-year-old mother, who at first begging him not to risk, said: “Please come back there and help people.”