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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Aysha Safi and Susannah Walden

'Lives At Risk': Women's Medical Training Ban Threatens Afghan Health Sector

Afghan students take a test at an institute of health sciences in Ghazni (Credit: AFP)

From her private hospital in Afghanistan's capital, doctor Najmussama Shefajo predicts a rise in maternal mortality rates "within three or four years", following the latest restrictions on women's education.

The Taliban's supreme leader is reportedly behind a ban on women studying midwifery and nursing at training institutes across the country, already among the worst in the world for deaths in childbirth.

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