A child who was lifted over a barbed wire fence at Kabul airport received treatment at the Norwegian field hospital. This confirms the Pentagon.
Video The child who was lifted over the barbed wire fence at Kabul airport has He went around the world.
The situation impresses anyone who follows what is happening in Afghanistan. There, the desperate are fighting to get to the airport and out of the country, after the Taliban seized power on Sunday.
And Press Secretary John Kirby said, during a press conference held with the US Department of Defense, on Friday evening, that the child who appears in the video received treatment at the Norwegian field hospital at the airport.
– The soldier you see lifts the child off the wall and takes him to a Norwegian hospital at the airport. Kirby says they treated the baby and returned it to the parents.
– He adds that it was done out of mercy.
Armed Forces: Too busy in the hospital
Press spokesman Bringar Stordahl at the headquarters of the armed forces operations confirmed the incident. He told VG that the baby was treated in the hospital and is now reunited with his father.
Stordahl says he has been very busy at the hospital with about 40 Norwegians, along with American staff, among others, working.
The plan was from an early age to the field hospital It will be operational until 2021.
It is a field hospital that has the capacity to treat and stabilize injured patients so that they can be transferred to “heavier” hospitals. Around the airport there are large crowds close to each other. They desperately need to get out of the country. It’s very hot in Kabul during the day and the heat is a big danger to that crowd. There is a slight panic and pressure at an incredibly high temperature. The situation is very difficult, Sturdahl says.
He says the Taliban are helping to maintain order in the airport area.
– It’s almost surreal. The spokesman said they realize that there is a Western cadre and it is a form of cooperation.
Chaos at the airport
VG previously wrote that the situation at Kabul airport was chaotic. On Monday, photos and videos from the site showed people It clung to the planes that were in the air.
– The situation is still chaotic and confusing. There has been a deterioration in the last hours, and the situation outside the airport is sometimes dangerous, Foreign Minister Eriksen Soered said at a press conference on Friday.
Landed on the same day The first Norwegian plane with the evacuees from Afghanistan.
– It was easy for me to go out. I think it would have been good if it was easy for the Afghans who would go out the same way they do. We were only a few dozen pieces on a plane, said Fredrik Griesvik, a TV 2 correspondent.
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