Afghan midwives in desperate struggle between life and death ...Kuwait

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Afghan midwives in desperate struggle between life and death
Since the Taliban's takeover a year ago, midwives at the Provincial Hospital in the Zabul province of Afghanistan have said they fear there will be a devastating increase in the maternal mortality rate over the next three years if funding to the country is not urgently increased. The high maternal mortality rate is not new to Afghanistan. In 2002, the country had the highest ever recorded maternal mortality ratio – estimated at 1,600 deaths per 100,000 live births. However, over the past 20 years, Afghanistan has managed to massively improve services and the rate has dropped by 60 percent to 638 deaths per 100,000 births. "Without increased funding to get these healt

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