Mar
07
2010
This past Thursday night was a great day – we held the graduation of the third group of General Registered Nurses to be trained at our hospital. At first we had planned to hold the ceremony in the open but were pushed indoors by the rains. The graduation ceremony of the 34 girls and 11 [...]
Tags: Hospital News, nurses
Mar
04
2010
Encouraging news out of Afghanistan: Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world’s second highest maternal death rate. Afghanistan has one of the world’s highest fertility rates, averaging more than [...]
Tags: birth control, nurses, Women