The 20th December edition of The Lancet published the results of its year end photography competition to highlight important health issues.
Amongst the twelve winners was an image of an appliqué wall hanging made in 2008 by the third group of students to attend the Bamyan Community Midwifery School in central Afghanistan.
Stitches to save lives
Gijs Walraven; Aga Khan Development Network, Geneva, Switzerland
This photograph of an appliqué wall hanging tells the story of Lailoma, who died after obstructed labour and a uterine rupture. Without access to a skilled birth attendant, she endured a long journey with poor transport and road infrastructure from her home to a health facility, ultimately losing her life during childbirth. The wall hanging was made in 2008 by the third group of students to attend Bamyan Community Midwifery School in central Afghanistan.
3 years later, the fifth group of students at the school made another wall hanging to tell the story of Sherbano, a Bamyan trained community midwife, and Fatima, who had severe pre-eclampsia. This time the expectant mother, Fatima was successfully treated at the local health centre by Sherbano, a local midwife trained by the Aga Khan Health Services’ Community Midwifery School.
The Bamyan Community Midwifery School is linked to the provincial hospital and was established in 2004. Since then 132 community midwives have graduated. Deliveries attended by skilled birth attendants in Bamyan province have increased from 37.2% in 2007 to 64.0% in 2013.
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- The Lancet | Highlights 2014: picturing health
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About Aga Khan Health Services
With community health programmes in large geographical areas in Central and South Asia, as well as East Africa, and over 200 health facilities including nine hospitals, the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world. Building on the Ismaili Community’s health care efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary health care and curative medical care in Afghanistan, India, Kenya, Pakistan, and Tanzania, and provides technical assistance to government in health service delivery in Kenya, Syria and Tajikistan.
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