A healthcare cooperation project in Afghanistan
In December 2025, Jannu Ferides signed a collaboration agreement with Be Team international to establish and support a specialized wound care clinic at the Cure Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. This project aims to improve care for people with chronic and complex wounds in a highly vulnerable context, integrating clinical care, professional training, and patient safety.
The clinic is named Elena Schroder Vilar in honor of her life, her healthcare vocation, and her commitment to caring for others.
Who was Elena Schröder Vilar? A legacy that continues to heal
Elena was deeply passionate about community pharmacy, orthopedics, and wound care. A distinguished member of Ortogrup, she was known for her constant smile, her kindness, and her inability to say no when someone needed help.
In the spring of 2024, Elena, her mother Susana Vilar, also a pharmacist with a great social and human sensitivity which she instilled in her four daughters and two other travelling companions were murdered in Afghanistan. Faced with this horror, her family, Jannu Ferides and the professional community decided to join forces and respond in the most transformative way possible: to create a project that heals, educates and protects. Because caring is also a form of resistance, and healing is sometimes a form of justice.
Specialized care for chronic and complex wounds
The Elena Schröder Vilar Wound Care Clinic, located at the Cure Hospital in Kabul, provides care for:
- People with chronic, hard-to-heal wounds
- Children and adults with complex injuries
- Patients with ostomies
- Complications from reconstructive surgery
- Wounds at high risk of infection or skin deterioration
The care model emphasizes prevention of complications, advanced wound treatment, patient safety, and skin integrity, always adapting to the local context and available resources.
International teleconsultation for complex wounds
One of the key pillars of the project is remote support from Barcelona, through a specialized teleconsultation system for complex wounds, enabling:
- Continuous clinical support for local professionals
- Evidence-based decision-making
- Practical training through real cases
- Guidance in high-complexity situations
Telemedicine becomes a powerful tool to reduce inequalities and ensure continuity of care.
Professional training and patient safety
The clinic will also serve as a training and knowledge transfer center. Healthcare professionals from the Cure Hospital and other institutions in Afghanistan will receive training in:
- Advanced wound care
- Prevention of skin injuries
- Ostomy management
- Early identification of complications
- Patient safety and skin integrity
- Evidence-based clinical practice
Training multiplies impact. Every trained professional means one less wound that worsens, and most importantly, many injuries or complications do not appear.
Against horror, care. Against violence, love and science. Against death, life.
The Elena Schröder Vilar Wound Care Clinic is more than a healthcare project. It is an act of memory, commitment, and hope. Every healed wound will also be a way to remember Elena. Every patient cared for will reaffirm that care matters, even in the most forgotten places on Earth.
And to make this a reality, we need your support…