1 Amendments of Anna ZÁBORSKÁ related to 2014/2230(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that Afghanistan is among the countries with the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, that many women are not allowed to enter hospital and have to give birth at home in poor sanitary conditions, that private healthcare is widely available in Afghanistan but is often unaffordable, and that there are a lack of qualified female medical staff; encourages the authorities to raise awareness of these issues and to develop public infrastructure that enables all Afghan women to give birth in good sanitary conditions, and calls on the EU and the Member States to fund medical training programmes for women;