Badghis, Afghanistan – Days after delivering her fourth little one at house with the assistance of a standard delivery attendant, Jan Bibi developed fever and skilled physique pains that received worse every day, placing her life at risk. Until she came upon a Mobile Health Team that supplied life-saving midwifery take care of her.

“I gave birth to my newborn son at home. My mother-in-law and a neighbor, a traditional birth attendant, assisted me,” Jan Bibi remembers. “I lost a lot of blood, but then everything went well with the delivery.”

The drawback began just a few days later. “I have not lived a healthy day ever since. I had severe body pain, headache, back pain, and I could not breastfeed my baby because I did not have enough milk,” she says.

“No one in the family went to a midwife for delivery. Our men are often out to work the whole day and the women cannot travel alone outside the village to get to a health facility without a companion,” she explains.

Jan Bibi’s situation worsened every day till 4 weeks later, she couldn’t bear the ache anymore and requested her husband to deliver her to the hospital.

“It was early in the morning and I could not get up even to take care of my child. I told my husband to take me to a hospital, otherwise, I might not live to see the end of that day,” she recounted. “He was worried but we had another problem – we did not have any means of transportation to get to the nearest hospital which is about four hours away.”

Without every other alternative, the husband propped her on the donkey, wrapping her and their child with a blanket and got down to start the journey to the hospital.

They have been approaching the subsequent village after they heard a public announcement from the mosque that docs and midwives have been visiting the village and anybody with a well being concern might come. Upon reaching the mosque, she was taken to a home the place midwives have been attending to sufferers. They have been a part of the Mobile Health Team (MHT) visiting the village.

The MHT, funded by USAID, is without doubt one of the 134 cell clinics being supported by UNFPA throughout Afghanistan to offer free maternal and new child care to folks dwelling in distant and hard-to-reach communities. In Badghis, there are three MHTs supported by UNFPA.

While Jan Bibi was receiving maternal care from the midwife, her husband determined to sit down in on a well being training session.

“Ever since that day, my husband has been speaking to everyone about midwives, doctors, healthy lifestyle, and other information he learned from the MHT. It was from the health education session that he also learned about the importance of delivering in a health facility,” shares Jan Bibi. The mom is now totally recovered and doing effectively collectively together with her child.

Text by Ehsanullah Popal