Women who are serving as midwives and nurses in Afghanistan have reported to the BBC that their last chance to get into a higher education in the nation was to close off their doors to more knowledge.
Five different Afghan organizations have even confirmed to the BBC that the Taliban had instructed them to close until further notice, with movies that were posted online showing individuals crying at the information.
The BBC has yet to confirm the purchase actually with the Taliban president’s health department.
The closing, however, seems to fit with the organization’s wider plan for female learning, which has prevented young women from getting into secondary and higher education since August 2021.
After a number of issues were resolved, including making sure the curriculum was” Islamic,” the Taliban have repeatedly promised to return to college.
This has yet to occur.
Through the government’s more schooling colleges, where women could study to become nurses or midwives, was one of the few avenues also available to women seeking education.
Due to the strict regulations imposed by the Taliban government on ladies, both midwives and nurses are the only professions that women are permitted to do.
Just three months ago, the BBC was given access to one Taliban-run midwife training centre, where more than a dozen women in their 20s were learning how to deliver babies.
The ladies were delighted that they had the opportunity to know.
A apprentice named Safia said,” My family feels but proud of me. ” I have left my children at home to come around, but they know I’m serving the country”.
But even then, some of the people expressed concern that this might finally be stopped.
What will happen to those ladies- and another estimated 17, 000 people on education courses- is questionable.
Although two options in the Ministry of Health confirmed the restrictions to BBC Afghan off the record, no official statement has been made.
In video sent to the BBC from different training schools, trainees may be heard weeping.
” Standing here and crying didn’t help”, a scholar tells a group of people in one video. ” The Vice and Virtue officials]who enforce Taliban rules ] are nearby, and I don’t want anything bad to happen to any of you”.
Another YouTube videos show people singing as they exit the universities while silently protesting as they march through the hallways.
One student from Kabul claimed that she had been instructed to “wait until more see.”
” Even though it is the close of our quarter, tests have not yet been conducted, and we have not been given permission to take them”, she told the BBC.
Another student claimed that they were “only given a brief period of time to keep the schools.”
They also warned us against standing in the yard because something may occur if the Taliban arrived at any moment. All was terrified”, she said. ” For many of us, attending lessons was a small glimmer of hope after extended periods of unemployment, despair, and loneliness at home”.
What this means for women’s healthcare also now remains to be seen: last year, the United Nations said Afghanistan needed an additional 18,000 midwives to meet the country’s needs.
According to the World Health Organization ( WHO ), Afghanistan already has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world, with a report from last year stating that 620 women per 100,000 live births passed away.
BBC Afghan provided extra monitoring.