Dodging Bullets to Deliver a Baby
The female doctor running the last hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in conversation with Emily Webb
For the past year, gynaecologist Dr Marzia Salam Yaftali has been running the last-standing, public hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. The city has long been dangerous, but the stakes were especially high in 2015 when the Taliban attempted to recapture it. Marzia tells Outlook's Emily Webb about living through the siege.
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(Photo: Afghan doctor Marzia Salam Yaftali. Credit: Marzia Salam Yaftali)
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