The newborns fighting for survival in Afghanistanon August 7, 2022 at 11:00 pm

The BBC visits a maternity ward where mothers are forced to share beds and have no access to pain relief.

A year into Taliban rule, the number of newborn deaths and miscarriages in one province, Badakhshan, have nearly doubled, local doctors say.

Foreign funding which financed Afghanistan’s public healthcare was frozen in August last year. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye has spent time in maternity wards there, witnessing the unbearable suffering of women with no access to pain relief, forced to share beds, and an acute shortage of doctors.

Amongst all of this, some babies are beating the odds, and surviving, but tragically many are not.

Filmed by Sanjay Ganguly

Produced by Imogen Anderson