Official Inauguration and The first open heart intervention in Afghanistan
On April 3rd, 2006, Professor Alain Deloche and Daniel Roux MD of the French organization La Chaîne de l'Espoir, with medical team from Toulouse and two Afghan nurses, have performed the first open heart intervention in Afghanistan in the French medical Institute for Children in Kabul.
The French Medical Institute for Children, created by Enfants Afghans, programme of the organization La Chaîne de l'Espoir, was inaugurated on 8 April 2006 by Bernadette Chirac, the President Hamid Karzaï, His Highness the Aga Khan and Philippe Douste-Blazy, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
On 1 January 2006, the Aga Khan Development Network took over the management of the hospital and is now helping to fund the work of La Chaîne de l'Espoir on behalf of needy children."
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Presentation of the French Medical Institute for Children
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The hospital is now up and running
The hospital is now up and running. It has around 100 beds, including 15 intensive care beds, a surgical block with four operating theatres, a radiology department, an analysis laboratory and a pharmacy. There are 150 staff. Equipped to Western standards, the hospital provides the most advanced surgery, giving Afghanistan access to state-of-the-art medical and surgical techniques. The first operations on children were performed in November 2005. So far, 120 children have been operated on.
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Afghan staff training
A parallel training programme for Afghan medical and paramedical staff began in 2004. Seven Afghan physicians and surgeons went to France to undergo training. The remaining staff is training locally with the medical, surgical and technical missions of La Chaîne de l'Espoir
  
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