Col. Ashok Kumar, a physician deployed with the 196th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, South Dakota Army National Guard, examines 13-year-old Afghan girl Safoora Nov. 19, 2010, as her father Ishmael Mohammad watches from the background at the Camp Phoenix medical clinic in Kabul, Afghanistan, after a recent operation she received to remove a tumor from the middle of her brain. Kumar helped to coordinate the necessary resources and medical contacts Safoora needed in order to have a chance at living a healthy and normal life. SD physicians help give Afghan girl new opportunity at life 345172

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