TIRINKOT (Pajhwok): Professional and skilled midwives and nurses have been appointed at 96 percent of health facilities in central Uruzgan province during the past one and a half decades, significantly reducing the child-mother mortality rate.
Years ago, Uruzgan had been lacking lady doctors, skilled midwives and nurses and people had to take their female patients to neighbouring Kandahar province.
During the past 13 years, six batches of midwives and nurses had graduated from various nursing and midwifery training programmes and as a result, the mother-child . . .
