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In Pictures Home UK Africa Asia-Pac Europe Latin America Mid-East South Asia US & Canada Business Health Sci/Environment Tech Entertainment Video In Pictures Also in the News Editors' Blog Have Your Say World Radio and TV Special Reports 15 June 2011Last updated at 03:26 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Learning to walk again in Afghanistan The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Orthopaedic Centre in Helmand is at the heart of Afghanistan's war. Patients used to have to travel hundreds of miles along dangerous roads to reach other centres. But now they can access treatment more easily. Every day civilians arrive to be fitted with prosthetic limbs and learn how to walk again.
The workers in the centre are all disabled themselves, and the philosophy behind the centre is as much about social integration as physical rehabilitation. Sidiqullah, who lost his legs in an improvised explosive device explosion four years ago, now works at the centre. Here he tells his story.
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