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A mother kisses her newborn baby’s hand at the MSF-run maternity center in Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul.
Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF
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At the MSF maternity center in Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, a health worker offers assistance in the kangaroo mother care unit, where premature or low-birthweight infants get essential skin-to-skin contact.
Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF
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Dasht-e-Barchi hospital staff take a patient to the operating room for a Caesarean section. The hospital is the only facility for emergency and complicated deliveries in this Kabul neighborhood with a population of over one million.
Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel
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A baby receives neonatal care at Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital.
Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel
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A grandmother tickles her grandchild in the newborn unit of Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital.
Afghanistan 2016 © Kate Stegeman/MSF
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An MSF health promoter holds an information session for men in the waiting room of Kabul's Dasht-e-Barchi hospital, where teams run a busy maternity center.
Afghanistan 2016 © Aurelie Baumel