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The 1940s and 1950s saw women becoming nurses, doctors and teachers and civil servants. The first woman Minister was in the health department, elected to Parliament along with three other women, employed in airlines, private corporations, and this was the era that Universities graduated female doctors from Universities of Afghanistan.
Latest reports say 38,000 Afghan women work as midwives. [3] From 2001 to 2021, Afghanistan experienced improvements in healthcare, with life expectancy increasing from 56 to 64 years and the maternal mortality rate reducing by 50%. 89% of residents living in cities have access to clean water in 2021, up from 16% in 2001. [4]
Also: Afghanistan: People: By occupation: Physicians: Women physicians This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Afghan physicians . It includes physicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which operates in the country, said barring women from medical education would have far-reaching consequences for women’s health in Afghanistan, which has one of ...
The Taliban say they will close all national and foreign nongovernmental groups in Afghanistan employing women, the latest crackdown on women’s rights since they took power in August 2021.
Bread and Roses follows the experiences of three women in the months following the fall of Afghanistan's capital city, Kabul: Zahra, a dentist whom the Taliban attempt to force to close her ...
[19] [20] Afghanistan in 2016 had the second lowest health worker density in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), with a ratio of 4.6 medical doctors, nurses and midwives per 10,000 people, considerably below the threshold for critical shortage of 23 health care professionals per 10,000. [21]
This is a list of the first qualified female physician to practice in each country, where that is known. Many, if not all, countries have had female physicians since time immemorial; however, modern systems of qualification have often commenced as male only, whether de facto or de jure. This lists the first women physicians in modern countries.