A letter from the North West Frontier, 1988 - JASGBI 36 March 2012

David A Rew, Consultant Surgeon

A little local history

More than 20 years, 400 British military lives and many billions of pounds ago, I was privileged to join an ad hoc charitable surgical team in Peshawar on the North West Frontier of Pakistan, working among the Afghans who had left Afghanistan during the Russian occupation. Our time there was brief, but the lessons which I learned were timeless, and of profound and unforeseen contemporary relevance, in the context of our present engagement and loss of blood in Afghanistan.

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