23 more midwives graduate in Badakhshan

[Admin Khan]

In an effort to reduce the maternal mortality rate (the death of a woman during or shortly after a pregnancy) in Afghanistan, the country’s health ministry is pushing for more training for Afghanistan’s midwives. Earlier this week, in Afghanistan’s northern province of Badakhshan, 23 trained midwives graduated from the Badakhshan Community Midwifery Education School, according to a report today from UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission In Afghanistan). The course is 18 months long, and it teaches students pre and post-delivery health care, techniques of safe delivery, nutrition, breast feeding, health care in the pregnancy period, birth complications and family planning. So far, a total of 88 professional and educated midwives have graduated from the school.


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[شمله ور خراساني]

We need more midwives!!

believe me, bringing more children is not the problem. Feeding them, raising them properly and preventing illnesses is much more urgent.
There is no use in having more healthy wiladats when the children live to become beggars, illiterates, slaves of crusaders and die like cattle.

[Zayam]

I agree, and yet since women will continue to have children even though the family does not have the means to care for the children, still it a blessing to have women trained in healthy birth processes. A child needs her or his mother, so what we can control this we should and must do. This is one of my major concerns especially in rural areas where often needs are not met.

[شمله ور خراساني]

I agree, and yet since women will continue to have children even though the family does not have the means to care for the children, still it a blessing to have women trained in healthy birth processes. A child needs her or his mother, so what we can control this we should and must do. This is one of my major concerns especially in rural areas where often needs are not met.

I think people should be educated in having less children so they can afford to take care of them.

In islam the ruling is: have as many children as you can as long as you can afford to support them and raise them properly. If you cant then dont.

[Zayam]

I tried to speak to someone in rural Pakistan about this, and he said "Children are a blessing from Allah" and I said "this is of course true, but one should be able to take care, because it is not helping them if you can not feed them." He then told me that I didn't understand, and repeated only that they were a blessing. It was clear that we were not communicating.

[شمله ور خراساني]

I tried to speak to someone in rural Pakistan about this, and he said "Children are a blessing from Allah" and I said "this is of course true, but one should be able to take care, because it is not helping them if you can not feed them." He then told me that I didn't understand, and repeated only that they were a blessing. It was clear that we were not communicating.

this is a typical problem among muslims. they learn a few nice sentences like " children are blessing from allah" but they do not know how that relates to the problems at hand.

Its like some people leaving their wife and children to live off benefits in Uk so the hustband can go tour around the world "spreading islam". And if you ask these people: why are not taking care of your wife and children, they will say: allah feeds the birds and the fish, so he will feed my family while I spread the message.

[Laila]

You each have a good point. Here is what i have noticed in Kabul.


1) There are not enough OB/GYNs. Midwives aid with a female doctor, so if Kabul does not have enough female doctors, then there will be a shortage of midwives.
2) There is a shortage supply for medical necessities. Seriously there are not enough ultrasound machines for pregnant woman.
3) When woman are pregnant, many are not encouraged to visit their doctor monthly. And there are many reasons why: a doctor may not be available close by, no money to see one or for medications needed. Its very important to visit your doctor every 3-4 weeks, this helps to see how the baby is doing.
4) Miscarriages can be influenced by so much. Genetics, environment factors, unhealthy lifestyle. So woman over there themselves need to be educated with all of this.

I am happy to hear an increase of midwives, but there is so much more to be able to help decrease mortality rates.

Afghanistan's health ministry needs to do so much more in helping to get better medical necessities!


Its also true that Afghans do not consider birth control in any sort of way. I have many female members that have 5+ children. They are suffering financially and its hard on women to bear many children: emotionally, mentally, and physically.

So when a woman already has 6 children, and she is getting pregnant again a couple of times, its no surprising she may go through miscarriages.

[شمله ور خراساني]

You each have a good point. Here is what i have noticed in Kabul.


1) There are not enough OB/GYNs. Midwives aid with a female doctor, so if Kabul does not have enough female doctors, then there will be a shortage of midwives.
2) There is a shortage supply for medical necessities. Seriously there are not enough ultrasound machines for pregnant woman.
3) When woman are pregnant, many are not encouraged to visit their doctor monthly. And there are many reasons why: a doctor may not be available close by, no money to see one or for medications needed. Its very important to visit your doctor every 3-4 weeks, this helps to see how the baby is doing.
4) Miscarriages can be influenced by so much. Genetics, environment factors, unhealthy lifestyle. So woman over there themselves need to be educated with all of this.

I am happy to hear an increase of midwives, but there is so much more to be able to help decrease mortality rates.

Afghanistan's health ministry needs to do so much more in helping to get better medical necessities!

People are really stupid. They dont know where the priorities are. They think if we solve one small issue, then we have achieved something good. But htey either neglect or ignore more urgent needs because they are too stupid to realize it.

Often, men who work in high positions in governments and other public institutions take very dumb decisions.

Yet commone people, like laypeople, they have much better common sense than these high profile decision makes in the government.

And this problem is btw not uniuqe to Afghanistan. It is a global issue.

[Zayam]

Those that Allah has placed closest to us should come first. So much is said in the Qur'an and from our blessed Prophet Mohammad about family.

[Dust]

Shimlah,

I like this side of yours.