For the first six months, I had close contact with Afghans as a member of a propaganda unit, driving around mountain villages to hand out food and fuel and show films.
"If there are any problems in the unit sex, drinking and driving, anything that could possibly be tagged to women being in the unit it's seen as their fault, " she said.
For patients living in rural north Wales he has led the establishment of a satellite renal unit and has been the driving force in promoting an extensive home dialysis programme.