Wakila Karim tells story of 30 years of her service

“I was the only female medical doctor at Faizabad state-run-hospital, where just four beds were allocated for female patients,” says Wakila Karim, who has dedicated her career to serve the underdeveloped mountainous Badakhshan province.

When I was a child, Ms. Karim, 55, says, I saw many mothers losing their lives while delivery. The Afghanistan, she spent her childhood, witnessed a high maternal mortality rate. Every once a week, a mother would die while giving birth, she now recalls.