The World Post:  Ever since a U.S. attack in October destroyed the Kunduz hospital — the only trauma center like it in the country’s north — Afghans now have to travel 200 miles to the Emergency Hospital in Kabul to receive life-saving treatment. The journey takes hours, sometimes days by car, much of it on a worn-out, snaking mountain route prone to avalanches and rockslides that passes through the Hindu Kush mountains. Click here to read more (external link).