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2025-02-28 09:18:35
🤬 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/women-and-girls/girls-miss-out-on-surgery-under-taliban-gender-apartheid/?msockid=311c2bfc5ec06efc2b1f3e5d5f206f4d
Girls miss out on life saving surgery under Taliban ‘gender apartheid’. Draconian restrictions introduced by the Taliban are preventing girls and women from accessing medical care and doctors, say families.
Afghan girls are going without vital surgical procedures because of discriminatory restrictions put in place by the Taliban, new medical data and first-hand accounts from the country suggest. Instead they are being forced to rely on faith healers and traditional medicine – even in cases of serious and life-threatening injury and illness. Despite a fifty-fifty gender split among children, over 80 per cent of all surgical procedures carried out at a charity-run paediatric unit in Kabul were performed on boys, according to a survey of its first 1,000 operations.
“It’s not just about surgeries for girls – their access to healthcare has been severely restricted since the Taliban takeover, especially in remote areas,” said Ejaz Nemati* a doctor working in Herat. “In the city, people can speak about it and it’s different, but in small clinics outside cities, our colleagues are not even allowed to treat female patients. If they do, punishment awaits them,” he said. “Girls here are deprived of everything – the only thing they are still allowed to do is breathe.”
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