A Taliban-appointed supervisor of a small hospital outside the Afghan capital has plans to build a mosque inside, segregate staff by gender and encourage them to pray while doctors are demanding overdue salary amid shortages of medicine, food and fuel.
Taliban member Mohammad Javid Ahmadi, right, talks to a doctor in the hospital in Mirbacha Kot, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. Ahmadi, who has no medical training or experience, was appointed as the new manager of the hospital.
It was Ahmadi’s dream to be a doctor; poverty had kept him from gaining admission to medical school, he said. He chose the health sector. Soon after, the Mirbacha Kot district hospital just outside of Kabul became his responsibility. The U.S. froze Afghan assets in American accounts shortly after the takeover, in line with international sanctions, crippling Afghanistan’s banking sector. International monetary organizations that once funded 75% of state expenditures paused disbursements, precipitating an economic crisis in the aid-dependent nation.
The first order of the day is the registration book. Ahmadi wants every doctor to sign in and out. It’s a formality most health workers are too busy to remember, but neglecting it is enough to inspire Ahmadi’s ire.Workers come to the hospital to take measurements for the project and Ahmadi gives them orders.There are many benefits, he added. Relatives can stay with sick patients overnight, sleeping in the mosque, as the hospital lacks extra beds especially during the winter months.
Due to shortages, doctors advise patients to find medications elsewhere and return. Ibrahimi said Ahmadi often scrutinizes her prescriptions.But Ahmadi is quick to allege deeply entrenched corruption in the hospital under the former hospital administrator, his predecessor from the former government. Doctors are routinely lambasted by angry patients, most of whom can’t afford to pay for the life-saving medicines. “All of them fight with us,” Ibrahimi said.
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