Health services in Afghanistan

The EU has been strongly engaged supporting the health sector in a country like Afghanistan where maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world and the average life expectancy doesn't reach 50 years. In close cooperation with the Afghan Ministry of Public Health, the European Community therefore has build up a network of basic health services in 10 of 34 provinces contributing to expand access to health to almost 80% of the population and pushing the number of women receiving prenatal care up to 30% in 2006 from 5% in 2003.
Dr. Abdul Wasai Qazizada, Director of Mehterlam Hospital, explains how they are struggling to bring better health services to the rural population of Laghman province.

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• EU
• European
• Commission
• Kabul
• Laghman
• Afghanistan
• Health