Isolation can become a death sentence in any difficult birth. In Afghanistan, it contributes to extremely high maternal and infant mortality rates. The U.N. estimates an Afghan woman dies every two hours during pregnancy and childbirth 1/5
“It was too hard for me when I lost my baby. As a mother, I nurtured the baby in my womb for nine months but then I lost him, it is too painful,” said Rahimi, 35.
The United Nations estimates an Afghan woman dies every two hours during pregnancy and childbirth, making Afghanistan’s maternal mortality rate the highest in Asia. People sit beside their tents in front of the ruins of a 1500-year-old Buddha statue, which was blown up by the Taliban in 2001, in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara“When the roads are blocked of course there is no means of transportation, people even use donkeys to move patients to the clinic centres, but sometimes there is not even the opportunity for that,” said Mohammad Ashraf Niazi, the head of UNHCR's Bamiyan office.
“We want to learn and serve the people of our village,” said one 23-year-old trainee, who walks two hours each day to the hospital. UNHCR asked the trainees not be named for safety. A trainee midwife examines a woman in a hospital in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Ali KharaA woman sits on a hospital bed in Bamiyan, Afghanistan, March 02, 2023. REUTERS/Ali Khara
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