– Our Work –
Medical Training & Services
Over the past 20 years, Afghanistan’s health care system was heavily subsidized by foreign organizations. The majority of that support has disappeared. Morning Star has teams in multiple provinces addressing the health care needs of those in desperate need of services, impacting tens of thousands of Afghans annually.
Kabul Education University Health Clinic (KEUHC)
KEUHC provides basic medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and counseling services to the students and faculty on campus.
Health Awareness Center
Many children die each day from preventable causes. Morning Star has dedicated teams that provide training in basic hygiene and nutrition so that families can live healthy and productive lives, especially in rural areas where hospitals and clinics are unavailable and food insecurity is highest.
Birth Life Saving Skills (BLiSS)
BLiSS is a community-based health education program covering basic health, pregnancy, birth, and new-born care. The course is taught to both men and women, and aims to raise community awareness of maternal-child health issues, and to significantly reduce high rates of maternal and infant mortality. Teams of both male & female birth educators conduct a three month course to men and women in rural villages on Birth Life Saving Skills. Afghanistan has consistently had one of the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality in the world. However, these rates drop by up to 80% in areas where this training is conducted.
Farzana visited a relative whose baby had been born at 7 months and she noticed that the baby was not only small but also clearly unwell. She unwrapped the baby and asked what they had put on the cord? It was dirt from the mud wall, which they assumed would help dry it out. Applying what she’d learned in BLiSS, Farzana asked for some antiseptic ointment, washed the cord, and applied it. On her next visit the baby was healthy, and everybody was happy and relieved!
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