Afghanistan
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| Dr. Garfield providing a continuing education program for physicians and nurses serving rural clinics. |
Humanitarian Assessments
We evaluated the evolving status of primary care in Kandahar in 2004 and identified opportunities for greater public/Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) collaboration. Health care cannot await the establishment of social stability. In areas of extended conflict and weak security, it is the provision of essential services which can help stabilize society and bring opposing groups together to recognize common interests.
Reconstruction and Capacity Development Among Health Workers
The training of auxiliary nursing staff in southern Afghanistan has begun, in part due to our encouragement and sharing of lessons from other post conflict areas. In places like Afghanistan where most people live in isolated rural areas, the use of modern information technologies to link local primary care nursing providers can meet most of the people’s health needs. Such nursing training has to be provided close to home, be designed on a ladder system, and build on continuing and in-service education over time.
Links
http://www.afghana.com/Directories/Health.htm
Afghan
Health & Development Services (http://www.ahds.org/planedprjs1MCHkand.htm)