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December 10, 2015

Doctors Without Borders Marches on White House to Demand Independent Probe of Hospital Attack 
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Doctors Without Borders has delivered a petition to the White House
demanding an independent probe of the U.S. bombing of the group's
hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The October 3 airstrike killed at least
30 people and wounded dozens more. At a rally across from the White
House Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders' board president, Dr. Deane
Marchbein, paid tribute to the attack victims.

Dr. Deane Marchbein: "More than 66,000 patients had been treated at our
hospital since it opened in 2011. Now, hundreds of thousands are cut off
from lifesaving care. The patients who were killed believed that they
had come to a safe place to be treated. They could not have imagined
that they would instead become targets. The staff were brave individuals
committed to providing healthcare for all regardless of ethnicity or
political persuasion."

 

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