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Veiled rebellion: Female medical students go underground in Afghanistan

Lima and her classmates from medical school before the ban on women's further education was ordered in Afghanistan a year ago [Al Jazeera]

Lima stayed home the last time the Taliban inspected the hospital where she secretly trains as a nurse.

After five years of medical training, Lima, 28, should be one year into her residency as a doctor, perfecting her diagnostic skills. Instead, she takes temperatures and administers injections, tasks she has been doing at an emergency room in Kabul for three months now. While this is not the work she expected to be doing at this point in her career, she’s happy to at least be doing this.

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