Afghanistan’s Taliban interim government has imposed a new ban on women’s medical education. According to the analysis, the ban will have a serious impact on the Afghan health care system, and will leave Afghanistan facing a serious shortage of female doctors, nurses and midwives.
According to the latest ban by Afghanistan’s Taliban interim government, all Afghan women are prohibited from studying medicine or doing any work related to medicine. If the latest ban is fully implemented, United Nations officials say it will have a serious negative impact on the current Afghan health system.
Shamdasani, spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office:This measure, which is highly discriminatory and short-sighted and endangers the lives of women and girls, will significantly reduce the already insufficient number of female midwives, nurses and doctors in Afghanistan.
A Taliban health ministry official said they had received a directive from the Taliban’s top leadership in recent days and that the directive had been sent to medical schools and medical institutions across the country.
The UN official further said that Afghanistan’s health care system is already very fragile, and there is an urgent need for tens of thousands of female doctors, medical staff and midwives, and urged the Taliban authorities to immediately withdraw the directive.
Shamdasani, spokesman for the UN Human Rights Office:We urge the de facto authorities in Afghanistan, who have actual authority and responsibility for the well-being and security of the entire population, to rescind this harmful directive.
The latest ban by Afghanistan’s interim Taliban government has raised concerns. Organizations and institutions, including the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, have urged the interim Taliban government to reconsider the ban to avoid a crisis in Afghanistan’s public health services.
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