International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says staff have left its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, after it was hit by air strikes it blames on US-led Nato forces.
International charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says staff have left its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz, after it was hit by air strikes it blames on US-led Nato forces.
At least 19 people, including MSF staff, were killed in the strikes.
The charity says some medics are treating wounded people in other clinics in Kunduz.
Afghan troops are reported to have recaptured most of the city, six days after it was seized by the Taliban.
MSF said it was pulling most of its staff out of the area.
"The MSF hospital is not functional anymore. All critical patients have been referred to other health facilities and no MSF staff are working in our hospital," a spokeswoman for the charity told AFP news agency.
"I can't confirm at this stage whether our Kunduz trauma centre will reopen, or not," she added.
The medical charity says the hospital was a lifeline for thousands in the city and in northern Afghanistan.
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