1. Medical Care In Afghanistan

2.  Patients have very limited access to medical care  Most facilities are in Urban areas  Safety is in jeopardy while traveling to facility  Women who don’t have a husband or man to escort them outside wont get medical attention  Prenatal doctors are scarce  Male-female contact is prohibited, unless clothes are on

3.  Patients were sometimes left with open sores and maggots in their wounds  Stolen pharmaceuticals and counterfeit medicine were used on Afghanistan soldiers  Starving patients, no sedatives in surgery and bedsores are also an issue  ("Afghanistan's 'Auschwitz-like’”)

4.  Favor is in your hands if you’re wealthy in Afghanistan  Choice between Public Clinics that don’t run smoothly and Private Clinics which are very expensive  Generally harder on secondary class  Due to insecurity people need to travel hundreds of miles through extremely dangerous areas. (“Briggs”)

5.  Women and girls have been denied there basic rights; education, work and medical care (“"Afghanistan Online: The Plight of the Afghan Woman.”)  The only medical facility where women were permitted only had 35 beds  Clean equipment, water, and electricity oxygen was not provided  Men were given more rights and access then women in health care, but the conditions are horrible unless you are wealthy or part of royalty

6.  The quality of women’s health care has decreased alarmingly under the Taliban regime ("Afghanistan Online: The Plight of the Afghan Woman.“)  Male doctors were limited on treating women because “male- female” contact was prohibited unless clothes are on  Men had the ability to travel freely and have access without restriction

7.  94 percent of women give birth with out the present of a physician  The united nation estimated that only ten percent of Afghanistan women have access to prenatal and maternal medical services  (“Afghanistan Merlin USA”)

8.  Very limited  Medical treatment for women is scarce  If not wealthy or part of royalty medical treatment is hard to find

9.  Public doesn’t have much sterilization, medicine or water treatment  Medicine isn't always found to be adequate and can be counterfeit  Not many women are physicians  Private is very expensive  Lack of vaccine

10.  Difficulties are faced by rural communities trying to obtain a safe access to local medical services. (“Afghanistan: outlook remains bleak despite progress in some areas”)  In rural areas there are “basic health units” which are small and simple facilities. (“Brigg”)  Rural areas seem to have more infectious disease, and acute respiratory infections. (“Briggs”)  Lack of trained health professionals (“Briggs”)  Since there is lack of sanitation in Rural and Urban areas more and more people are becoming sick  (“Afghanistan- HEALTH”)

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