How years-long awaited baby died in Kabul hospital attack?

Yassin was talking to other shopkeepers when a terrible explosion jolted Dasht-e-Barchi, a western neighbourhood of Kabul city. It soon became known that Barchi National 100 Beds Hospital had come under attack in Tank-e-Tel area of the neighborhood. Like many others, Yassin, became panic and worried. His heart sank. He recalled that Reza, his cousin’s son and his ill-fated wife and child were still in the hospital. Without closing his shop, he rushed to the hospital. “When I got to the main road, I felt like everyone was running towards the hospital. I forced my feet to support move and get a car. Reza’s cell phone was switched off,” Yassin recalled the moment.

On Monday night, Yassin and Reza took Farideh to the hospital for a very long-awaited delivery. Farida had become able to give birth to a baby after four years of treatment.

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