Women affected in eastern Afghanistan Few victims Female doctors

Yasamin Tue Sep 2025 3 months ago 343

Despite the Taliban's statistics reporting 800 deaths and over 2,500 injuries, local sources have provided much higher unofficial figures and emphasized the catastrophic shortage of female doctors in the healthcare centers of these regions.


As medical teams struggle to attend to the injured, the severe shortage of specialized female personnel poses a significant obstacle to treating injured women. According to local sources, many women are forced to wait hours to receive medical services or are unable to access them at all.


A resident of a district in Kunar, who wished to remain anonymous for security reasons, said: “Women and girls have suffered the most. In the absence of female doctors, healthcare centers cannot properly attend to this group. As a result, the death toll is rising every moment.”


Many local residents, pointing to cultural sensitivities and prevailing social restrictions, stress that treatment by male doctors is practically impossible for women, and this issue has led to delays in the treatment process. A local activist in Nangarhar said: “In our culture, it is difficult for women to seek treatment from male doctors. When there are no female doctors available, women suffer in silence or lose their lives.”


While the urgent need for female healthcare personnel is felt, the Taliban’s decisions in recent years, including the ban on girls’ education in medical fields, have now revealed dangerous consequences. The closure of university doors and educational institutions to women has significantly reduced the number of female doctors and midwives, a crisis that now threatens the lives of hundreds of women in the critical moments following the earthquake.


In recent years, the Taliban has closed all higher education institutions, including nursing, midwifery, and medical technology institutes, to girls. These restrictions have now become one of the main obstacles to effectively responding to the humanitarian crisis in the earthquake-affected areas.


As local teams remain unable to provide services, relief organizations and international institutions have once again been urgently requested by the people. Local residents are calling on global institutions to immediately deploy medical teams equipped with female doctors to prevent further deaths of women and children.


Another resident warned: “If urgent action is not taken, a silent catastrophe is unfolding. Injured women, without care, are caught between life and death.”


UNICEF and other international organizations had previously warned that the lack of trained healthcare personnel and adequate equipment could lead to dire humanitarian consequences; these warnings have now turned into a bitter reality in Kunar and Nangarhar.

Following a severe earthquake that shook large areas of Kunar and Nangarhar provinces last night, concerns about the worsening health situation, particularly for affected women, have sharply increased.

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