{"id":44296,"date":"2022-05-09T15:15:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/09\/taliban-afghanistan-hospitals-run-by-women-doctors"},"modified":"2022-05-09T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T06:15:22","slug":"the-taliban-know-they-need-us-the-afghan-hospitals-run-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44296","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Taliban know they need us\u2019: the Afghan hospitals run by women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salaries<\/p>\n<p>Few places in Afghanistan are run by women. Public life and business are male-dominated and, since the Taliban\u2019s takeover, even more women have vanished from view. While some say they are stuck in conservative societal structures that rarely let them take control, others fear draconian new rules, the travel and education bans.<\/p>\n<p>But behind the walls of several female-run hospitals in Kabul, a different reality exists: here, women save lives on a daily basis, offer marriage advice, care for and adopt abandoned children. Many of the doctors and nurses working here have raised children and often remain their family\u2019s sole financial supporters. And they all agree: things work better when women run the show.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/09\/taliban-afghanistan-hospitals-run-by-women-doctors\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female medics continue to save lives, but rely on the Red Cross to get by because the Taliban cannot pay their salariesFew places in Afghanistan are run by women. Public life and business are male-dominated and, since the Taliban\u2019s takeover, even more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,79,61,44,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44297,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions\/44297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}