KANDAHAR (Pajhwok): Residents and public health’s height mother-child mortality rates.
Officials say mothers lose their lives to complications which are easily preventable during pregnancy and child birth.
Acting Kandahar public health director Dr. Mohammad Azim Zmaryal, in an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, said other zones of the country had maternity hospitals, but Kandahar remained deprived of the vital service.
The only maternity ward in Mirwais Hospital in Kandahar City lacked facilities and staff even to cope with patients coming . . .
