Medics overwhelmed as Afghanistan healthcare crumbles
Al Jazeera
Hundreds of health facilities shut their doors to patients as aid money to Afghanistan halted after Taliban takeover.
Since fleeing Afghanistan shortly before the Taliban takeover last month, Farhana has been unable to find peace. Nightmares take her back to the moments she jostled among a crowd of thousands to enter the gate of Kabul’s airport.
The 34-year-old gynaecologist was among tens of thousands of Afghans who left the country within days of the Taliban’s return to power 20 years after they were removed in a US-led military invasion.
She is assailed by sorrow and guilt for the patients she has left behind at the public maternity hospital in the western city of Herat, where she was one of eight Afghan female health workers trained by Italy’s Umberto Veronesi Foundation to diagnose breast cancer.
