Taliban rule is affecting women’s healthcare in Afghanistan, gynaecologist tells Sky News

In every bed in Afghanistan’s largest paediatric hospital there are multiple critical cases – many infectious.

Cuts in international aid - and the Taliban’s pariah status - has hit the most vulnerable.

Healthcare is one of the few sectors where Afghan women can still work. But what is the future for them?

Special correspondent Alex Crawford visited Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul and spoke to the doctors working there, as well as the women seeking treatment.

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