The birth centers built from the Emirates return hope to Afghan families

Afghanistan on June 26 / WAM / Fatima is the first born born in the ten centers of birth that the UAE has built in various states of Afghanistan, promising a better healthy life for the Afghan rural regions.
Fatima was born in safety in Jalal Abad, in the state of Nangarhar, in Afghanistan; She is the seventh child of her mother, Shazia Muhammadi, and the first to be born in the birth center of a specialist provides the necessary medical care under the supervision of specialized doctors.

Mother Shazia says: “Our economic situation was very bad throughout the previous time, and now our situation has become much better after receiving Emirati assistance, and we thank the UAE for this qualitative transformation in all of our lives, and in return her husband, Ramadan Mohamed, remembers their suffering in obtaining health care previously, recalling the birth of their six children at home for their inability to bear the costs of transportation to go to hospitals far from the village, as through About his joy in the presence of a birth center for the first time near their home, considering this a blessing for all the residents of the state thanks to the Emirati assistance.
The birth centers funded by the UAE provide necessary medical care for societies that have suffered a lot for a long period of severe shortage of obtaining the simplest health services.

The UAE built ten birth centers located in seven Afghan governorates, which are “Nangarhar, Balkh, Herat, Baktia, Bakkika, Helmand, Kandahar”, where these centers provide maternity and child care services, medical consulting for childbirth, organizing pregnancy, emergency care and medicines.

The birth centers are also centers for community communication by providing awareness-raising lectures, health education and periodic vaccines, including the Coveyd-19 vaccine and the BCG vaccine to protect against more than 20 people per day.
In this context, Dr. Ikramallah describes a “doctor in one of the birth centers” the fundamental change of the health sector in these Afghan states, saying: “Women were giving birth in homes previously without any appropriate medical care, and in unsafe or health conditions, but the situation has changed now, and people are very happy, so as well as safe births, birth centers provide periodic vaccinations and necessary food assistance and continuous medical care for mothers And newborns, for example: We currently have a child named Aisha Qamari who receives health checks and basic vaccinations regularly, which will help reduce infant mortality in Afghanistan, which is classified from the highest high rates globally.
“Previously, we used to go to the city hospital three to four times for review and treatment, and we did not bear the cost of transportation and transportation, and in many cases sick children do not escape from such a long, arduous journey, and therefore we owe a lot of thanks and gratitude to the UAE for building the birth center in two regions,” says the mother of the child, Aisha, said.
“We thank the UAE for its support for the healthcare sector in Afghanistan, as we desperately needed such a health center that enabled the poor to obtain basic medical services, including vaccinations, maternity care, and provide food support to women and children,” said Mawlawi Amin Sharif, Director of Health in the state of Nangarhar.
According to the United Nations “UNICEF” organization, more than 57 children of 1,000 children in Afghanistan die before they reach the age of five, and the UAE’s establishment is 10 birth centers in different states dedicated to motherhood and childhood a qualitative shift in the health care system in Afghanistan, and these health centers have many economic dimensions, as they increase the start of small projects and provide job opportunities and increase local trade Especially in the fields of retail, food, transportation, transportation, women’s empowerment, in addition to that the ten birth centers work in which about 100 local population employees from medical and administrative energies, all of which are equipped with the latest technologies and medical equipment, with the presence of the necessary solar energy equipment, and it is expected that more than 100,000 women will benefit from the services of these centers during the coming years.

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