A Sisterhood of Women in an Afghanistan Hospital

On International Women’s Day 2017, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is highlighting the challenges that women in Afghanistan face during pregnancy and childbirth. #HerVoiceIsMyVoice
Severine Caluwaerts is an MSF OBGYN in Khost, Afghanistan, at MSF's largest maternity project. This is her seventh time in Khost.
"I’m doing exactly the job that made me study medicine so many years ago, to help people who most need help," said Caluwaerts. "Afghanistan is a war-torn country. Our patients are continuously confronted with the war. Families lose husbands, children die, mothers die. And what MSF is offering them is a safe place to deliver."
" I see Afghan women, Afghan doctors, Afghan midwives. I see them from doing their first delivery to becoming really experienced and two of our national doctors still here, Dr Sadia and Dr Farida, I taught them basically their first Caesarean section and now so many years later they are independent.
It’s like a sisterhood of women. It’s Afghan women taking care of Afghani women and Afghani babies."
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Amazing job. Keep up the good work!!

[@geetasales5783]

I really want to go back to Afghanistan, I was in Boost in Helmand before, but would love to go to Khost. I am determined to learn some Pashto before I go back, I've forgotten the few words I learnt in 2018.

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Aww, I love her!

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