DOCTORS FOR AFGHANISTAN

The profits of our latest concert will go towards a project to train doctors in high quality obstetric care, based at the Cure International Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.

This page gives an outline of the project; click on any of the images to view a larger version.

The project director holds a safely born baby

Mountain Ambulance

Pregnancy is dangerous in Afghanistan

Women who run into difficulty in labour may have to travel for days across remote mountainous terrain – carried on stretchers by their menfolk – to reach medical help. It is often too late.

One in 17 mothers in Afghanistan dies trying to give birth (compared with 1 in 10,000 in the UK).

Shortage of trained doctors and nurses

Following decades of occupation and war, the Afghan health system is in tatters. There is only 1 doctor for every 10,000 people. The medical director of the Cure International Hospital in Kabul and an Afghani obstetrician have set up a 1-year training course in high quality obstetric care. The doctors who join this course will work in remote areas of the country and when trained will take part in training other doctors – creating an ever-expanding workforce.

The First Trainees