In most provinces, male doctors have also received orders and directives from the Taliban instructing them not to examine female patients. The doctors say they are not allowed to examine or provide emergency care to female patients, except under specific conditions – such as the presence of a female patient’s male guardian (mahram), or having certain procedures performed by female nurses.

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“I don’t know what kind of situation this is. In a city where not a single female doctor can be found, how can they impose so many restrictions? Human life has no importance to them at all,” one patient told the Guardian and Zan Times.

These fucking asshole dickheads. I really fucking hate this.