Afghanistan

Kabul – Dr. Najmussama Shefajo is probably the best known and most experienced Ob-gyn in Afghanistan.

He became a family name of his regular appearances on Afghan television, where he talked openly about the reproductive health of women, an issue that is still considered taboo in Afghanistan.

During the last decade, News themezone has made Several visits For its private clinic in the center of Kabul, but it has never been as busy as now.

His clinic was flooded with new patients after The Taliban The prohibited women of nursing and training courses in parcels in December. It is a movement that has begun to affect Shefajo, who told News themezone that he has been suffering from migraines for quite some time “due to tension.”

“I see that my patients are very poor, they can’t pay, I can’t avoid them, and all the pressure presents me and my head hurts,” Shefajo said.

Even so, Shefajo has continued to be a committed teacher. He found a way to overcome the educational prohibition of the Taliban for their nurses and student midwives giving them all the works in their clinic.

This means that technically they are no longer students, but employees, even while she continues to train them.

She says that if current policies remain in place, the situation in Afghanistan will worsen.

“The previous doctors, midwives, nurses are aging and older and will die,” said Shefajo. “Who will provide services?”

After retirement from the United States and immediately after taking power in 2021, the Taliban also forbidden Girls over 12 years of age attend school. But the results of such a shortage of medical care could be catastrophic, believes shefajo.

Under the Taliban government, women and girls can only be treated by medical women. Male doctors can only treat women when a male tutor is present.

“Surely the number of deaths will increase, and one day there will be no woman in Afghanistan,” said Shefajo.

An Afghanistan without women: the Taliban insists that it is not what their policies are directed.

In the courtyard outside his clinic, News themezone tried to ask some of the spouses, parents and guardians what they thought about the prohibition of the Taliban of Education on maternal health for women, but nobody wanted to speak.

Shefajo said that his message to the Taliban is to terminate the policy on women’s health education.

“As a doctor, as a mother, as a woman, as a Muslim, I ask you … to give her the opportunity for women to help you build the country.”

• Women’s health
• Afghanistan