Afghanistan : Women are Dying on the Way to the Hospital or In It : Anastasiia Carrier / PassBlue / John Gilmartin
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Hard reading.
Timely safe affordable transport to hospital before birth remains a savage killer.
In 25 years of UN work the only time I received a personal thank you from a head of state was after we bent some guidelines to supply a bunch of low cost low tech ambulances for maternity transport. Liberia, from their first woman head of state.
In 25 years of UN work the only time I received a personal thank you from a head of state was after we bent some guidelines to supply a bunch of low cost low tech ambulances for maternity transport. Liberia, from their first woman head of state.
John Gilmartin
“What’s tragic is that now you could look back to the situation in April of 2021 and feel like it’s some kind of halcyon vision of the past, when, in fact, it was very, very grim,” said Heather Barr, the interim co-director of the Women’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. “It’s just that we didn’t realize then how much worse things could get.”
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