Afghanistan: Qatar to provide vocational training for Afghan midwives

KABUL, 16 May 2022, (TON):  Public Health Ministry, in cooperation with the Qatari Red Crescent Society, celebrated International Midwife Day with the slogan “One Hundred Years of Progress”.

Addressing an occasion Mohammad Ishaq Sahebzadeh the deputy of the Public Health Ministry called on the international community and aid agencies to work with the Afghan health sector, irrespective of political issues, so that the Afghan people can benefit from health services.

Qatar embassy in Kabul and Red Crescent Society said “they have provided vocational training to 24 midwives to expand health services to mothers and infants in rural Afghanistan.”

Qatar’s ambassador to Kabul, Saeed Mubarak Al-Khayarin, said “his country was committed to assisting Afghanistan in various sectors, expressly in providing health services and providing humanitarian assistance.”

The health sector, the Nurses and Midwives Council calls on the government and international donors to provide more support to nurses and midwives.

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